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 STEINEMIn every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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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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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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