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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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I don't like writing. I like having written.
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A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
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the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.
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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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