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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
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You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
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I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
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More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.
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It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
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Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.
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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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Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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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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There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
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