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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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.
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Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
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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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