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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
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Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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Religion is often politics made sacred.
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We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
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I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
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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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I would put all the efforts to humanize the masculine and feminine gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.
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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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Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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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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