A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEMThe authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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