If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMEmpathy is the most radical of human emotions.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Helping begins with listening.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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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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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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