If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMLife 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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