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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem

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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Collective Effort Equality Feminism Story Struggle Women
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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Believe Difficult Experience Heart Intertwined Love Pain
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Biology Culture Existence Men Origin Ourselves Violence Woman
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Dreams Excitement Imagination Lose Planning Possibility
If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Dream Inspirational Passion Possible Yourself
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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Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
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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Compose End Feeling Motion Move Movement People Warmth
[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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Around Golden Men Need Ourselves Rule Self Love Way Women Work Writing
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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Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
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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Believe Born Combination Environment Hereditary Human Prediction Result Unique Way
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Enough Part Power Process Strong
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Believe Children Faith God Hope Human Myself Ourselves Potential Power Raise
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Help Minute People Person Raise Stand Time Up Voice Wait Wrong
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Emotion Hope One Liner
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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Adopt Care Economic Equality Flexible Gender Leave Paid Sick Simplicity Support Value Way Work

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