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.
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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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[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 movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Life 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.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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