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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Gloria Steinem

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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Age Conservative. Youth Feminist Lose More Older Power Radical Wait Young
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Equality Man Vote Women
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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Adventure Age Country Experience Life
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Change Cling Embrace Past Problem
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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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Children Courage Daughter Equality Feminism Growth Parenting Son Women Empowerment
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
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Character Dangerous Intelligence
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Change Feet One Liner Shoe
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Empowerment Power Process
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Compose End Feeling Motion Move Movement People Warmth
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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People Person Relationship Right Search
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
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Emotion Hope One Liner
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Crucial Peace Politics Seat Table Women World

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