Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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No 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.
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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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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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