Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMFeminism 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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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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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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