Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMRich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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At 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.
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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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