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  • I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

  • I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

    Funny   Marriage   Witty  
    Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)
  • Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  • The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

    Self   Safety   Heartfelt  
    "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.
  • Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

    "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.
  • The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  • My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

  • Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

    Writing   Should   Feels  
  • The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.

    Art   Sex   Revenge  
  • We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  • The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

    Commitment   Gay   Loss  
  • I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

    Kids   Thinking   Impact  
    Source: wwd.com
  • 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.

    War   Dirty   Army  
    Ms., Spring 1972
  • Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

    Mary Daly (2016). “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”, p.307, Beacon Press
  • Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

    Home   Men   Feminist  
  • 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.

    Home   Long   Faces  
    Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library
  • There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

    Women   Alive   He Man  
  • I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

    Book   Wife   Want  
  • Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

  • When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.

    Blue   Hands   Surfing  
    "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.
  • Law and justice are not always the same.

    Equality   Law   Justice  
    "Open Secrets : Ninety-four Women in Touch with Our Time". Book by Barbaralee Diamonstein, 1972.
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