By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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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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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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 art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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