There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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 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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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