The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEMA movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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 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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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