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I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about self-esteem would have seemed like a luxury.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
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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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I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
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