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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
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.
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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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More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.
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Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
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I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
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We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
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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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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.
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During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.
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If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
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