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" I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. "
Gloria Steinem
Much
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" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "
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" The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. "
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" A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "
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" If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. "
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" Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. "
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" One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. "
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" Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture. "
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" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "
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" I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone. "
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" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "
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" There's no shortage of great young activists. "
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" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "
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" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "
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" Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. "
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" The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. "
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" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "
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" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "
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" I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. "
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" Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. "
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" If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal. "
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