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Gloria Steinem
American
Activist
Born:
Mar 25
,
1934
Because
Men
People
Woman
Women
You
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Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.
Gloria Steinem
People
Binary
Sex
Sense
Way
Ways
Obviously
Make
Continuum
Label
Race
Many
Thing
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
Gloria Steinem
You
Met
Every
Baby
Inside
Know
Knows
Person
Anybody
Who
Ever
Right
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
Gloria Steinem
Woman
Challenge
Whatever
Only
Facing
Individual
She
Knows
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Each
Each Individual
Her
I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'
Gloria Steinem
Thinking
Botox
Had
Georgia
Keep
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.
Gloria Steinem
Women
Immigration
Three
Correct
Three-Quarters
Idea
Over
Quarters
Issues
Women And Children
Undocumented
Children
Want
Inaccurate
Workers
Help
Media
Image
Here
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
Gloria Steinem
Problem
Mother
Father
Too Much
Responsibility
Too
Would
Would-Be
Classic
Parental
Cured
Child
American
Little
Much
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Gloria Steinem
Women
President
Married
Never
Learned
Get
Get Married
Candidacy
Movement
Vice
Vice President
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
Gloria Steinem
Gritty
Some
Scenes
Like
Audrey
Audrey Hepburn
Natalie
Child
Wood
Romantic
Hepburn
Played
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem
Food
Inferiority
World
Valuable
First
Half
Own
Needy
Consider
Our
Signal
Know
Female
Families
May
Us
Much
Bodies
Less
Lets
Deserving
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem
Citizen
Skin
Must
Institution
Governing
Authority
Any
Stop
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
Gloria Steinem
Man
Women
Welfare
Young
One-Man
Children
Young Children
Away
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
Gloria Steinem
Work
Value
Valued
Social
Worker
If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
Gloria Steinem
You
Men
System
Maintain
Dominate
Going
Teach
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
Gloria Steinem
Women
Every
Society
Way
Encourages
Victims
Certainly
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.
Gloria Steinem
Life
School
Year
Books
Observer
Until
Go
Really
Full
Lived
Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.
Gloria Steinem
Party
Believe
Those
Independents
More
Democrats
Ballot
Than
Either
Republicans
Choice
Actually
What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
Gloria Steinem
Valuable
Tell
About
Learn
Stories
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
Gloria Steinem
Change
Starts
System
Bottom
Up
Stopped
Where
Electoral
Communities
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.
Gloria Steinem
Women
Psychic
Group
Way
Immigrant
Women Are
If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
Gloria Steinem
Time
Word
More
Vomit
Read
Going
I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.
Gloria Steinem
Thought
Made
Think
Too
President
Would
Excellent
Could
Supported
Soon
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
She
Clinton
Get
Elected
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.
Gloria Steinem
Women
Totally
Thatcher
Movement
Against
England
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.
Gloria Steinem
Week
Years
Plane
Twenty
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.
Gloria Steinem
Men
Picture
Fathers
Way
Tried
About
Having
Masculine
Masculinity
Missed
Talk
Talking
Because
How
Real
Limits
Fit
Role
Often
Want
Loving
Them
Groups
Present
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
You
People
Smart
Think
Because
Dumb
Communal
Who
Creatures
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