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.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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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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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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