A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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