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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
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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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Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
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If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.
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More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.
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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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A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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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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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
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