By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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