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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
Editor
Essayist
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
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When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
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There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
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The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
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The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no he and she. A human being is a human being.
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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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You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate, so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, You would be a good candidate and I'll help you. It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?
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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
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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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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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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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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
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Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
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