If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEMEmpathy is the most radical of human emotions.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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The 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.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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