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Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again, without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.
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The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
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Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.
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I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.
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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
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