If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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 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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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