Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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 men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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 authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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