I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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[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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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