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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 14

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As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine,

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

Morning, Writing, Insecure

Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

Mother, War, Loss

"Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2009.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Writing, Needs, Terrible

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.9, Open Road Media

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

Home, Wanted, Psychoanalysis

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.201, Open Road Media

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

Beautiful

The moment we find the reason behind an emotion the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

Memories, Wall, Answers

I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been the case that citizenry -- women and men -- can make progress when it is not possible for the officials to be able to meet at that moment in time.

Spiritual, Peace, Men

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Peace, Voyages, Impossible

"Women activists cross DMZ between North and South Korea" by Jethro Mullen, Kathy Novak, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2015.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Unhappy, Mysterious, Unhappy Family

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

Male silence is not the same as listening

Silence, Listening, Males

I can't mate in captivity.

Sex, Captivity, Mates

"Lesson 21: Gloria Steinem's Aphorisms; Fish, Power, Love, Bunnies, and Life" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

Taken, Responsibility, Giving

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

Art, Expression, Everyday Objects

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.208, Open Road Media

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

Home, Doors, Different

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.342, Open Road Media

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Might, Plot, Politician

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

Kings, Mean, Thinking

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Graduation, Memorable, Funeral

Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

Teacher, School, Justice

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.145, Open Road Media

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

Mother, Years, Twenties

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.211, Open Road Media

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Men, Race, Diversity

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

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Work, Double Standard, Care

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Inspirational, Discomfort, I Can

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Workout, Women, Power

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

Missing, Magazines

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Add, May, Violence

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