I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM
Battered 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 art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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