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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.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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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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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
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I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.
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You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate, so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, You would be a good candidate and I'll help you. It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
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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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women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
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More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
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