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 STEINEMBattered 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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[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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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