If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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 origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Any 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.
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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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