The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMA woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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