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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
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I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.
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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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The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
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I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.
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You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride and (3) it's frightening.
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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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I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
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The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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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.
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