Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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