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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
Lecturer
Reporter
Writer
Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
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Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
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Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.
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For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride and (3) it's frightening.
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That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.
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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
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