The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Helping begins with listening.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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