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 STEINEMSome of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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