Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
GLORIA STEINEMThe 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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 story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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There 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.
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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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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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