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 STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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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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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Helping begins with listening.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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