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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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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For a man to say, I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids, it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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I don't like writing. I like having written.
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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
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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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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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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
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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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It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
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Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.
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A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
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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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A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
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That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.
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There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.
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