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Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

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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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
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Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
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The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
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Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
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It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.
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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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I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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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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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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Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.
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