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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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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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At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
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If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
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We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).
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Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
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Liberation does not come from outside.
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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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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
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If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.
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