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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.
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It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
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When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
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change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.
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People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.
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I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
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In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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