We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEMBattered 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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