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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 12

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The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Men, Thinking, Problem

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

Worry, Ordinary, Use

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Trust, Society, Microcosm

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.435, Open Road Media

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

Enemy, Labels, Links

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Family, Children, Selfish

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Winning, Politics, Want

The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

Masculine And Feminine, Circles, Ideas

Source: www.esquire.com

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

Self, Stereotype, Purity

Source: muse.jhu.edu

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

Ideas, Smell, Problem

Source: muse.jhu.edu

I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

Age, Five Senses, Needs

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.

Together, Use, Information

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

Stories, Want

Source: www.elle.com

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

People, Needs, Accomplish

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

Real, Book, Imagination

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

I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it.

Mother, Children, Father

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

Differences, Private Life, I Can

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.

Heart, Want, Matter

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Sin, Individual, Responsible

"Interview with Gloria Steinem". muse.jhu.edu. 2003.

Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

Baby, Mets, Persons

Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

Children, Home, Men

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Crazy, Animal, Talking

Source: www.elle.com

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Thinking, Interesting, Effort

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.

Thinking, People, Feelings

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

I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.

Mother, Thinking, Long

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

Daughter, Mother, Children

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.86, Open Road Media

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