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 STEINEMInner space is the real frontier.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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