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 STEINEMwhen pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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 believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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