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  The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Unique, Heredity And Environment

  Source: bigthink.com 

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• I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Ideas, Racist

  Source: www.elle.com 

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• One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

  Gloria Steinem

  Army, One Day, Earth

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.893, Open Road Media

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• At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

  Gloria Steinem

  Light, People, Age

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• Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Happens, Depends

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014. 

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• Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Men, Feminist

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• Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

  Gloria Steinem

  Helping Others, People, Waiting

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• It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Influence, Economic

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. 

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• Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

  Gloria Steinem

  Empathy, Mind, Body

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• The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Struggle, Rights

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• Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Feminist, Feminism

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, Answers, Problem

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• By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Believe, Years

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• A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Jobs, Sex

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• When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, Talking, Impact

  Source: www.elle.com 

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• Behave like everything you do matters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Matter, Behave

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• We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.

  Gloria Steinem

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