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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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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
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The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.
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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.
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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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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
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Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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