Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
GLORIA STEINEMwhen pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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