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1 " Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. "
― Gloria Steinem
2 " Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night "
3 " Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. "
4 " Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "
5 " Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world. "
― Gloria Steinem , Marilyn
6 " If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. "
― Gloria Steinem , My Life on the Road
7 " Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves. "
― Gloria Steinem , Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
8 " Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River. "
9 " 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. "
10 " 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. "
11 " Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice. "
12 " As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous. "
13 " Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning "
14 " Most women are one man away from welfare. "
15 " 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. "
16 " A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. "
17 " Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. "
18 " 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 . . . She will need her sisterhood. "
19 " We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. "
20 " In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: 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? I leave further improvisation up to you.) "
