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Gloria Steinem

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEM

Appearance Diverse Expression Freedom Men Rock Variety Women
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Choice Need Order Power See Yourself
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Emotion Empathy Myself Organization Personal Revolution Story
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEM

Destroy Difference Justice Law
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEM

Equality Man Vote Women
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Age Inspirational Life Myself Surprise
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Emotion Hope One Liner
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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Abuse Age Bury Children Degree Endurance Neglect Ourselves Rebel Resistant Shame Spiritual Wait Wisdom
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Marriage Ourselves Women Empowerment
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEM

Help Minute People Person Raise Stand Time Up Voice Wait Wrong
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Crucial Peace Politics Seat Table Women World
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Adventure Age Country Experience Life
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 STEINEM

Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
GLORIA STEINEM

Chance Corruption Men Women
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEM

Generation Knowledge Learning Teaching

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