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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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[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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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