American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
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.
Gloria Steinem
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In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
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I can say whatever it is that I feel.
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We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.
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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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All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.
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Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
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I am not patient.
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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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The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
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How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
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It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
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