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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Gloria Steinem

We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Choice Poet Talk Writing
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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Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Choice Need Order Power See Yourself
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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Collective Effort Equality Feminism Story Struggle Women
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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Appearance Freedom Learning Self Love Sight Thinking Yourself
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Inspirational Limitless Marriage Permanent Perspective
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM

People Person Relationship Right Search
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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Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
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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Age Conservative. Youth Feminist Lose More Older Power Radical Wait Young
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM

Advice Career Marriage Men Myself
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Barrier Boundary Feminism Gender Serious Sex
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Age Group Growth Radical Women
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Art Control Life Ourselves
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
GLORIA STEINEM

Change Feet One Liner Shoe
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
GLORIA STEINEM

Crucial Peace Politics Seat Table Women World

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