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.
GLORIA STEINEMIntelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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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 future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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