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it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
Editor
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
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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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One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
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To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
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I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
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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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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.
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This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.
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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.
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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
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