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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
Essayist
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Lecturer
Reporter
Writer
Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I don't like writing. I like having written.
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
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We have to know before we can act.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
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When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
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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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I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
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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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Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
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We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
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A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
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I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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