In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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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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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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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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