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.
GLORIA STEINEMWhatever you want to do,do it now.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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