Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
GLORIA STEINEMIntelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Helping begins with listening.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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