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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.

Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Emotion Empathy Human One Liner Radical
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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Believe Born Creation Imagination True
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Empowerment Power Process
I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Myself Preference Writing
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Complete Man Woman Women Empowerment
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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Enough Part Power Process Strong
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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Crucial Peace Politics Seat Table Women World
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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Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
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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Believe Born Combination Environment Hereditary Human Prediction Result Unique Way
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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Army Choice Dirty Embrace Herself Human Joke Sister Support Treat Warn Woman
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Equality Home Men Position Women
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Lonely Marriage One Liner Yourself
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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Change Cling Embrace Past Problem

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