We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream 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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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