In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMI want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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