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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.
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If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
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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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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.
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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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Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
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We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
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We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.
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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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I would put all the efforts to humanize the masculine and feminine gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.
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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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Liberation does not come from outside.
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In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.
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