imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEMA lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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