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People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.
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I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.
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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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Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
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For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride and (3) it's frightening.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
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Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
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If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
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It's never to late for a happy childhood.
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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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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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Liberation does not come from outside.
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