What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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