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.
GLORIA STEINEMI think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Helping begins with listening.
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