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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.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
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The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.
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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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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
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Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
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no one ever got radicalized by being grateful
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In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
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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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A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
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Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
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I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.
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I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.
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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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