Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMBut somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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