If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEMI think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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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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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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