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I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ... They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.
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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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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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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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The surest way to be alone is to get married.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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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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I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
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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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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
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Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
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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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Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
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