The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMWe need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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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 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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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