Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMBehave like everything you do matters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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At 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.
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