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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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We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
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Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
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Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.
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The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.
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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
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To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.
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Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.
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One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.
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We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.
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Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.
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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
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The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
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