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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Gloria Steinem

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Belief Change Cure Injustice Naive Order Point
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Human Power Race Show Transformation
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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Believe Born Creation Imagination True
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Help Minute People Person Raise Stand Time Up Voice Wait Wrong
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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Dangerous Face Fact Help Herself Home Hurt Majority Phrase Safety Street Violence Women
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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Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
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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Abuse Age Bury Children Degree Endurance Neglect Ourselves Rebel Resistant Shame Spiritual Wait Wisdom
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Advice Career Marriage Men Myself
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Equality Man Vote Women
Inner space is the real frontier.
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One Liner Reality Space
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Action Day Depend Entire Future Movement Ourselves
Helping begins with listening.
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Beginning Helping Listening One Liner
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Inspirational Limitless Marriage Permanent Perspective
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Adopt Care Economic Equality Flexible Gender Leave Paid Sick Simplicity Support Value Way Work
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Army Choice Dirty Embrace Herself Human Joke Sister Support Treat Warn Woman

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