There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEMRich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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