It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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