learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
GLORIA STEINEMThe first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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