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 STEINEMThere 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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