Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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 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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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