I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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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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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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 good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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