The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEMIf men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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