Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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