A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEMThere is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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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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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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