What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
GLORIA STEINEMI believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Helping begins with listening.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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