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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.

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
I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Myself Preference Writing
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Biology Culture Existence Men Origin Ourselves Violence Woman
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
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Feminism Happiness Marriage Men Women Work
[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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Around Golden Men Need Ourselves Rule Self Love Way Women Work Writing
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Art Behavior Helping Moments Small Value Worth
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
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
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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Believe Born Creation Imagination True
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Dreaming Form Planning
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Dreams Excitement Imagination Lose Planning Possibility
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
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Enough Part Power Process Strong
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
GLORIA STEINEM

Army Capture Earth Hairs Quiet Women

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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