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Gloria Steinem

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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Age Conservative. Youth Feminist Lose More Older Power Radical Wait Young
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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Enough Part Power Process Strong
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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Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
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.
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Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Appearance Diverse Expression Freedom Men Rock Variety Women
Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Choice Feminism One Liner Women
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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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Competition Fantasy Men Menstration Time
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Art Control Life Ourselves
It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Chance Corruption Men Women
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Learning Let Go Man Problem Woman
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Barrier Boundary Feminism Gender Serious Sex
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Equality Feminism Feminist Gender Human Humanity Men Recognition Women
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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Believe Difficult Experience Heart Intertwined Love Pain
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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Age Inspirational Life Myself Surprise

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