Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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[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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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