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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

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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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If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
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Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
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We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
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There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.
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The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.
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I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about self-esteem would have seemed like a luxury.
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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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We have to know before we can act.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
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People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.
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I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.
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When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
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I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
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Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
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