Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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