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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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Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
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Writing is always harder than talking.
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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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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
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It's never to late for a happy childhood.
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Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
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The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.
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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
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There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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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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