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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
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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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I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again, without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.
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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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Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
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Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
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The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
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The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
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I can't mate in captivity.
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Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
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I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.
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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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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
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