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 STEINEMNo one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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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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