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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
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
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we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.
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anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.
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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.
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Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
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Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.
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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
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Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
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We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.
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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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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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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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Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
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