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Most women are one man away from welfare.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Feminist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about self-esteem would have seemed like a luxury.
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The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).
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More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
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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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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.
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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
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I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
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I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had crazy mothers. We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.
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As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
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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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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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I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.
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