If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMEach others’ lives are our best textbooks.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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