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.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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