The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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 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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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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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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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