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.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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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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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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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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