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She is a water bug on the surface of life.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
Editor
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
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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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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about self-esteem would have seemed like a luxury.
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
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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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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.
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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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