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I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
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Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
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We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have he and she. They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.
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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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