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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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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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It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.
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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.
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The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
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Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
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A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
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To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.
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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
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Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
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