The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMImagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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