Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMIf the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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No 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.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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