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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, Do you believe in God? I do say, No. I believe in people.
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I can't mate in captivity.
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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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When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
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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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We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.
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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
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If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had crazy mothers. We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.
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I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.
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The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.
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