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.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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