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A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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Writing is always harder than talking.
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You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate, so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, You would be a good candidate and I'll help you. It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
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Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
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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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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54, then it's another story.
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Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
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Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
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People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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