By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMIn every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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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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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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