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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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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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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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