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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
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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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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.
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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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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.
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There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
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Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
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