We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEMNo one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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