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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.
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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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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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