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.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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[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.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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