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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
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.
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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
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This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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The political is personal.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
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Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
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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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Women are always saying,We can do anything that men cando. But Men should be saying,We can do anything that women can do.
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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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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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