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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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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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Writing is always harder than talking.
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Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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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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It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.
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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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There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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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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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.
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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
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