QUOTES by Gloria Steinem
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“I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.”
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“When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no—I believe in people—I”
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“In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.”
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“My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.”
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“You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.”
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“I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.”
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“It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.”
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“I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.”
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“Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.”
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“That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow for consciousness to change.”
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“In many languages, even the word for human being is “one who goes on migrations.” Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.”
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“In fact, there are many unique satisfactions here. One is that Americans seem to outstrip every nation for hope. Perhaps because so many of us came in flight from something worse, or rose from poverty here, or absorbed the fact and fiction of the “land of opportunity,” or just because optimism itself is contagious—whatever the reason, hopefulness is what I miss the most when I’m not here. It’s the thing that makes me glad to come home. After all, hope is a form of planning.”
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“Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”
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“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.”
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“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a new way.”
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“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.”
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“We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176”
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“More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.”
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“Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.”
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“This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them.”
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“At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much—and I’m using it to light the torches of others.”
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“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.”
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“Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.”
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“And I was angry because the media took racism seriously - or pretended to - but with sexism, they rarely bothered even to pretend.”
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“I’ve learned from these events that self-esteem plays as much a part in the destiny of nations as it does in the lives of individuals; that self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated; that citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform their countries; in short, that self-esteem is the basis of any real democracy.”
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“I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.”
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“the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.”
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“We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. [...] All the things an adolescent can be [...] are reduced to a three digit number. [...] We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us.”
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“Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.”
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“According to the wisdom of Indian Country on my own continent, it takes four generations to heal one act of violence. What”
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“Needing approval is a female cultural disease, and often a sign of doing the wrong thing.”
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“Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.”
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“YOU CANNOT THINK YOURSELF INTO RIGHT LIVING. YOU LIVE YOURSELF INTO RIGHT THINKING
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“I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.”
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“It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.”
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“Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.”
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“Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.”
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