American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.
Gloria Steinem
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The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
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The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
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This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.
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A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
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Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
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As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'
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Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
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Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
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Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
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What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
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