The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEMI want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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