The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMA feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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