Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
GLORIA STEINEMBattered 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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