Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM[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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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 lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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