I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMThere 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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.
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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 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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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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