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.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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 want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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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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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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