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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
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
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I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
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Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
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Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
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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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we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
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I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
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As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.
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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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