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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
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.
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Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.
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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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People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.
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Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
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[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
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It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
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How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.
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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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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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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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