Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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 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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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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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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[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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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