If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMAny woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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