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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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Toledo
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
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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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Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.
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It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
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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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Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
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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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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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I would put all the efforts to humanize the masculine and feminine gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.
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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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The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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