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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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Feminist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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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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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
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It's never to late for a happy childhood.
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One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
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I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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For a man to say, I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids, it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.
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I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.
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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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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.
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Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
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There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
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Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.
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Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
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We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.
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There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
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