I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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 need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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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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