[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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