If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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 think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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