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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
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You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.
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The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A million times better than the phone and the mimeograph! Also much better than TV, which is one-way and passive.
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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
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