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

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.
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We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.
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I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
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There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.
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Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
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Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
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The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.
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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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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
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If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
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This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
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We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
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Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
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If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
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If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.
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It's never to late for a happy childhood.
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