Behave like everything you do matters.
GLORIA STEINEMEmpathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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