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You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
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For a man to say, I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids, it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
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... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.
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When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
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If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
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I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had crazy mothers. We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
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It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.
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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
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