If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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