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Whatever you want to do,do it now.

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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The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
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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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One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
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When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.
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It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.
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Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
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We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, Bring an 'anti' with you.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
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If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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