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 STEINEMIntelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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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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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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