Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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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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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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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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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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