Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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[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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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