Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMA movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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 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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