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Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

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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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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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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
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You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming more than, or at least not becoming less than, instead of becoming part
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
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No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.
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We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.
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Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are follow the fear or fear is a sign of growth.
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If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
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There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
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