Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEMThe 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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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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Helping begins with listening.
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