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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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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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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
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The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no he and she. A human being is a human being.
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If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
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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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