Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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 think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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