Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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 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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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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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