There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEMSome of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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