I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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