What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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