Gloria Steinem - Revolution from within (1992)

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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

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I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

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Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

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This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

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Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

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Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

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The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

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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 (or so we thought) from the outside in.

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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.

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Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

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Without self-esteem, the only change is an exchange of masters; with it, there is no need for masters.

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Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

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Old or new, this wisdom too often remains in our heads. Only experience can make it a visceral part of our daily lives by bridging the distance from head to heart.

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Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

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Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it.

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Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

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Dancing has been a way of lifting the human spirit since the beginning of time.

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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

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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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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

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We teach what we need to learn and we write what we need to know.

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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they're] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

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