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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.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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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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The political is personal.
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Male silence is not the same as listening
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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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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.
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Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
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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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People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.
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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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Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.
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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
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I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again, without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.
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it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.
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Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
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