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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 11

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I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, Do you believe in God? I do say, No. I

I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

Religious, Believe, People

Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Thinking, Impact, World

Source: collider.com

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

Husband, Men, Men And Women

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.26, Open Road Media

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

Believe, I Believe, Bottom

"‪81 Gloria Steinem Quotes to Celebrate Her 81st Birthday‬", www.elle.com. March 25, 2014.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

People, Waiting, Movement

Source: www.esquire.com

In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

Country, Home, Equality

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

Way, Married, Traditional

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Careers

Interview with Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. March 16, 2010.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

People, Revolution, Groups

Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Parent, Proud

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

Thinking, Feminist, Important

Source: muse.jhu.edu

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

Men, Thinking, Leader

"The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

Mean, Evil, Ends

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

Jobs, Children, Men

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Feminism, Revolution

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

Writing, People, Forever

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.10, Open Road Media

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Integrity, Acting, Matter

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

Rebel, Female, Doe

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.182, Open Road Media

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Crazy, Care, Littles

Source: www.elle.com

You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?

Presidential, Would Be, Needs

Source: bluestockingsmag.com

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

Men, Thinking, Community

Source: www.elle.com

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

Discovery, Joy, Age

"Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.

Support, Needs, We Need Each Other

Source: bigthink.com

Writing is always harder than talking.

Writing, Talking, Harder

Source: www.elle.com

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

Communication, Writing, Together

Source: collider.com

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