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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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you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
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Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
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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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Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
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The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.
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I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
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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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Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.
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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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