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I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

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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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Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
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The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
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Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
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One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
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Religion is often politics made sacred.
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Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
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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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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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If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54, then it's another story.
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I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.
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Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
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