Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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