So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEMWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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