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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.

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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We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have he and she. They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.
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I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
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No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
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