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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.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ... They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
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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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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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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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women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
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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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Writing is always harder than talking.
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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
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There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.
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It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
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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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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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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
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We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have he and she. They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.
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I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.
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