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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.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.
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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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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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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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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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If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.
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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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This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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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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