Inner space is the real frontier.
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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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