Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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