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.
GLORIA STEINEMLife after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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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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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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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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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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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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