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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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Male silence is not the same as listening
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We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
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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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