In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMImagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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, life is one long surprise.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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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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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 art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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