Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMLaw and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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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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