Gloria Steinem Quotes About Suffering
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.
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We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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