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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.
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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.
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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 fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.
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Law and justice are not always the same.
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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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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
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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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There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
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Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.
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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
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Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
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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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For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride and (3) it's frightening.
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