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People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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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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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
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Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
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I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
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Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
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A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
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... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.
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