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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
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Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.
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It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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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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Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
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One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
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Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
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At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
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The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
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It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
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We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.
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