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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
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It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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Liberation does not come from outside.
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What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming more than, or at least not becoming less than, instead of becoming part
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It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.
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I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, Do you believe in God? I do say, No. I believe in people.
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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
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Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.
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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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We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.
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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.
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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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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
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If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
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