learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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