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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
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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 not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.
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... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.
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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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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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When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
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you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.
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This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.
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Writing is always harder than talking.
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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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Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
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There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
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