Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.Gloria Steinem
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The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.Gloria Steinem
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'Gloria Steinem
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Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.Gloria Steinem
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If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.Gloria Steinem
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There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.Gloria Steinem
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.Gloria Steinem
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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.Gloria Steinem
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I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'Gloria Steinem
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I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.Gloria Steinem
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The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.Gloria Steinem
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A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.Gloria Steinem
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.Gloria Steinem
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.Gloria Steinem
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The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.Gloria Steinem
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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.Gloria Steinem
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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?Gloria Steinem
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As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.Gloria Steinem
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I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.Gloria Steinem
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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.Gloria Steinem
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Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.Gloria Steinem
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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.Gloria Steinem
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The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.Gloria Steinem
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.Gloria Steinem
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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.Gloria Steinem
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I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.Gloria Steinem
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Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.Gloria Steinem
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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.Gloria Steinem
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.Gloria Steinem
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.Gloria Steinem
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Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.Gloria Steinem
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All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.Gloria Steinem
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You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.Gloria Steinem
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Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.Gloria Steinem
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.Gloria Steinem
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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.Gloria Steinem
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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.Gloria Steinem
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What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.Gloria Steinem
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