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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
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Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
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We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, Bring an 'anti' with you.
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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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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
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People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.
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I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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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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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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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.
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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
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We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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