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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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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.
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There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
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... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.
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If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.
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I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
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I can't mate in captivity.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.
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As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.
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