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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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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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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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 first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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