Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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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