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.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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