[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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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