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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
Editor
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
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Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
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It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.
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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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There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
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We have to know before we can act.
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I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
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