If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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