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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.
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I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
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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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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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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Law and justice are not always the same.
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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
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Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.
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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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Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.
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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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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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