American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.
Gloria Steinem
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What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
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There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.
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All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
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I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
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From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
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Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
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Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.
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Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
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Most women are one man away from welfare.
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It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
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