imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEMAt 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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