What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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