A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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