Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMThere is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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 don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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