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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

Gloria Steinem

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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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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
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The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
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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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I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
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The surest way to be alone is to get married.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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Liberation does not come from outside.
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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
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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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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.
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The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.
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