when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
GLORIA STEINEMThere 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.
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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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