Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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But 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.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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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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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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