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change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
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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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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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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are follow the fear or fear is a sign of growth.
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the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
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I don't like writing. I like having written.
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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.
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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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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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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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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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I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.
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