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Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

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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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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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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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Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.
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It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.
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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.
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Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
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The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
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I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.
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I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.
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