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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.
Gloria Steinem
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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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To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.
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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.
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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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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 first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.
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