By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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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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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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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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.
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