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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.
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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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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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At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
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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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I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.
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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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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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I don't like writing. I like having written.
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You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
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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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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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It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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