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.
GLORIA STEINEMThe origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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.
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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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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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