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The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.
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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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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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