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 STEINEMA lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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