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In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

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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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What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming more than, or at least not becoming less than, instead of becoming part
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We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.
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change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.
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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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... 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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I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
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Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
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When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.
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One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
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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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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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