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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.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
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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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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
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We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
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I don't like writing. I like having written.
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We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
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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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Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
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It's never to late for a happy childhood.
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Liberation does not come from outside.
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Women are always saying,We can do anything that men cando. But Men should be saying,We can do anything that women can do.
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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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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
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Religion is often politics made sacred.
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