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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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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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.
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I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
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