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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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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
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I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.
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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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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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It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.
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We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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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.
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Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
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When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
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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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When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
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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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I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.
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It's never to late for a happy childhood.
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