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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

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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People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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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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Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
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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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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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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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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.
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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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Religion is often politics made sacred.
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
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There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
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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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Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
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