Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
GLORIA STEINEMwhen pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Helping begins with listening.
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