In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMShow me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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[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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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