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 the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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