Gloria Steinem Quotes

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Belief Change Cure Injustice Naive Order Point
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Destroy Difference Justice Law
Behave like everything you do matters.
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Act Matter Self Love Value Worth Yourself
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Generation Ourselves Raise Respect Violence
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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Believe Difficult Experience Heart Intertwined Love Pain
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Believe Children Faith God Hope Human Myself Ourselves Potential Power Raise
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Action Day Depend Entire Future Movement Ourselves
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Adopt Care Economic Equality Flexible Gender Leave Paid Sick Simplicity Support Value Way Work
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Difference Future People Planning Poor Rich
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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Brave Courage Explore Finding Guide History Human Move Possible Vulnerable Women Word
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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People Person Relationship Right Search
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Empowerment Power Process
We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Choice Poet Talk Writing
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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Believe Born Creation Imagination True
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Crucial Peace Politics Seat Table Women World
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Feminism Happiness Marriage Men Women Work
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Age Generation Life Live Mom Ourselves
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Children Creature Dependent Parasite Wife
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Equality Man Vote Women
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.
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Believe Born Combination Environment Hereditary Human Prediction Result Unique Way
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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Compose End Feeling Motion Move Movement People Warmth
[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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Around Golden Men Need Ourselves Rule Self Love Way Women Work Writing
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Help Minute People Person Raise Stand Time Up Voice Wait Wrong
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Emotion Hope One Liner
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Human Power Race Show Transformation
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Art Control Life Ourselves

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