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A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

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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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
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anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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 reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.
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I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.
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... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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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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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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