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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.
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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
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we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud
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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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We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have he and she. They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.
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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
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When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.
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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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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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The surest way to be alone is to get married.
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you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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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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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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