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 STEINEMWe’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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