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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More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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