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There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
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Essayist
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Empathy

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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
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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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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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Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
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The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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 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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A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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