I don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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