Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM[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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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[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.
GLORIA STEINEM