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If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.
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I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.
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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
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I do not like to write - I like to have written.
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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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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
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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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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
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I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.
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There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
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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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