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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Gloria Steinem

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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Dangerous Face Fact Help Herself Home Hurt Majority Phrase Safety Street Violence Women
I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Myself Preference Writing
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
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Change Cling Embrace Past Problem
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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Adventure Age Country Experience Life
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Difference Future People Planning Poor Rich
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Destroy Difference Justice Law
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Marriage Ourselves Women Empowerment
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Choice Need Order Power See Yourself
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Equality Man Vote Women
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
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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Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Action Day Depend Entire Future Movement Ourselves
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
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Feminism Happiness Marriage Men Women Work
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

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