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I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.
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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
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Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
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