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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
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I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again, without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.
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I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.
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I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.
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We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.
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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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The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.
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A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
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As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.
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Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.
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Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.
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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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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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