Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMwhen pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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