If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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 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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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 why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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