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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.
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Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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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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Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Writing is always harder than talking.
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People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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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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I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, Do you believe in God? I do say, No. I believe in people.
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We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.
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We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.
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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
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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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One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
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I don't like writing. I like having written.
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