I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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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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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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