A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMThe first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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