What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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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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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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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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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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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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