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48 quotes
American activist and journalist (born 1934)
“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
on Emotion
"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."
on Gender
"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving."
on Activism
"Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night"
on Wealth
"Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims."
on Philosophy
"Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't."
"Dying seems less sad than having lived too little."
on Life
"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities."
on Imagination
"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?"
on Identity
"The surest way to be alone is to get married."
on Relationships
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
"Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular."
on Art
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
on Curiosity
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
on Power
"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."
on Courage
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
on Learning
"If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something."
