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.
GLORIA STEINEMEmpathy is the most radical of human emotions.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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[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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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