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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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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
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Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
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The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
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For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride and (3) it's frightening.
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Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
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We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
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