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.
GLORIA STEINEMSome of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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