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 STEINEMSo whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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