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Life Quotes by Gloria Steinem
- She is a water bug on the surface of life.
- I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost…
- It's never to late for a happy childhood.
- No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags…
- The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
- 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,…
- Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged…
- Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole,…
- I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty,…
- For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or…
- It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
- Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion…
- Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
- 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…
- The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
- No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules…
- Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other…
- Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
- Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle