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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 13

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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women

The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.

Thinking, America, White

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

Violence, Firsts, Economics

Source: www.elle.com

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Ideas, Choices, Yearning

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Self Esteem, Passion, Finding Yourself

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.32, Open Road Media

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

Thinking, Never Quit, Kind

Source: bigthink.com

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

Democracy, Mob Rule, Income

For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

Kids, Men, Careers

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

Mother, Father, Unique

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

Jobs, Unemployment, May

Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

Baby, Jobs, Men

Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.

Believe, Perfect, Trying

Source: www.elle.com

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Names, Justice, Calling

Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.798, Open Road Media

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

Men, Expectations, Silence

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.281, Open Road Media

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Marriage, Husband, Feminism

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media

I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

Mother, Children, Crazy

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

Love, Mean, Self

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.341, Open Road Media

It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.

Strong Women, Mean, Thinking

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

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Education, Needs, Self Education

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.158, Open Road Media

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

Logic, Oppression

Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.1066, Open Road Media

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Love, Support, Risk

God knows (She knows) that women try.

God, Trying, God Knows

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.184, Open Road Media

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

Fighting, Successful, Justice

Some women and men seem to need each other.

Love, Men, Needs

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Marriage, Men, Differences

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Librarian, Internals, Saved

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