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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you really want to be lonely, get married.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Helping begins with listening.
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