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.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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