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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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