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If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
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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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the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
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Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
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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.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.
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I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
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I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
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Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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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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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.
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During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.
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