Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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Helping begins with listening.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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