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A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.
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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
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If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
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I do not like to write - I like to have written.
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Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
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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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Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
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We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming more than, or at least not becoming less than, instead of becoming part
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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Law and justice are not always the same.
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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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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
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You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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