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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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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.
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If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.
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Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.
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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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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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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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The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
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We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
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Male silence is not the same as listening
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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