So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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[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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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