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You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

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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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People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
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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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In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.
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Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
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Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
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A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
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