I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
GLORIA STEINEMA good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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