learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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