A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMHelping begins with listening.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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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.
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The 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.
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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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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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