Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
GLORIA STEINEMAny 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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