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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, Bring an 'anti' with you.
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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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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
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The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.
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I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.
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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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I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
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A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.
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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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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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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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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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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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