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There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
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I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.
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All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.
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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
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I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.
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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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I would put all the efforts to humanize the masculine and feminine gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
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