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We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.
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Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
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Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ... They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.
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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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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.
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Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
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I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
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