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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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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 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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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[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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