The 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.
GLORIA STEINEMLife after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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