The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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