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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
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.
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I hate when people say, Have fun at the press preview. Fun is talking to you.
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If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.
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The ends and means are a seamless web.
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I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had crazy mothers. We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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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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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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I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.
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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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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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