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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.

Gloria Steinem

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Collective Effort Equality Feminism Story Struggle Women
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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Age Inspirational Life Myself Surprise
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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