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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
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.
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I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.
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The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.
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It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.
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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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We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
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The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no he and she. A human being is a human being.
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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.
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Women are always saying,We can do anything that men cando. But Men should be saying,We can do anything that women can do.
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If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.
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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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Religion is often politics made sacred.
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I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
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