American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.
Gloria Steinem
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There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
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I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.
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I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'
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After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
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Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
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I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
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I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children.
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As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
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Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
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There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.
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Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'
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