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 STEINEMAt my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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