It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
GLORIA STEINEMIn order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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 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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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