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I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.
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Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
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Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
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[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.
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There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
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