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Gloria Steinem

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Empowerment Power Process
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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Environment Feminism Human Purpose Understand Unique
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.
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Destroy Difference Justice Law
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Equality Man Vote 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 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
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Authority Color Government Institution Skin
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Children Creature Dependent Parasite Wife
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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Believe Born Creation Imagination True
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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Children Courage Daughter Equality Feminism Growth Parenting Son Women Empowerment
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Emotion Hope One Liner
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Generation Ourselves Raise Respect Violence
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Lonely Marriage One Liner Yourself
There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Funny People Talk World

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