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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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Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.
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I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.
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Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.
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We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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 never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
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Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
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If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
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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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We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
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I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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