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Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem

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The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.
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If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
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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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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
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Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
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The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.
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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
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I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
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Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ... They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.
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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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Women are always saying,We can do anything that men cando. But Men should be saying,We can do anything that women can do.
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You are the leader you've been waiting for.
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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 think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.
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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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