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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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Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
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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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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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 have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
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A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.
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People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.
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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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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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