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.
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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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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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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