I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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