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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Gloria Steinem

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Deep Invisible People Power Revenge Suffering
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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Abuse Age Bury Children Degree Endurance Neglect Ourselves Rebel Resistant Shame Spiritual Wait Wisdom
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
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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Environment Feminism Human Purpose Understand Unique
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Empowerment Power Process
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Change Cling Embrace Past Problem
Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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Dangerous Face Fact Help Herself Home Hurt Majority Phrase Safety Street Violence 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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Age Inspirational Life Myself Surprise
I 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.
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Believe Born Combination Environment Hereditary Human Prediction Result Unique Way
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Conversation End Friendship Goodness
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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Chance Corruption Men Women
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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Army Capture Earth Hairs Quiet Women
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Children Creature Dependent Parasite Wife
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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Army Choice Dirty Embrace Herself Human Joke Sister Support Treat Warn Woman
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
GLORIA STEINEM

Adopt Care Economic Equality Flexible Gender Leave Paid Sick Simplicity Support Value Way Work

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