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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Gloria Steinem

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Choice Need Order Power See Yourself
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Age Group Growth Radical Women
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Believe Difficult Experience Heart Intertwined Love Pain
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Character Dangerous Intelligence
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Crucial Peace Politics Seat Table Women World
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
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
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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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
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
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
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Change Feet One Liner Shoe
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Equality Feminism Feminist Gender Human Humanity Men Recognition Women
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Human Power Race Show Transformation
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
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
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Barrier Boundary Feminism Gender Serious Sex

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