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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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If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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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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I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
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