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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

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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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Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
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I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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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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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
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I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
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There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.
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When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
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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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You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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