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I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

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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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 you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are follow the fear or fear is a sign of growth.
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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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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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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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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
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Religion is often politics made sacred.
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You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
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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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