learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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[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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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