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Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
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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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We have to know before we can act.
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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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