The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
GLORIA STEINEMThere 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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 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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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