You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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