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The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.
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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
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A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of 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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54, then it's another story.
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We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.
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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
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This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
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In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.
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