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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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I do not like to write - I like to have written.
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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
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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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If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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Male silence is not the same as listening
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That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.
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It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.
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Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
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... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
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You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
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It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
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