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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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