We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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