If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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