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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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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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There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
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Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
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I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.
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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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.
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I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
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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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Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.
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If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
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Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.
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As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.
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