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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 15

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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Individuality, Special, Eating Disorder

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

Movement, Superwoman, Super Woman

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Suicide, Economic Value, Growth

Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

Responsibility, Decision, Flags

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Mother, Children, Two

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

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

Country, Men, Bombs

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

Talking, President, Vices

"Gloria Steinem, a Woman Like No Other" by Sarah Hepola, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2012.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

Winning, Majority, Consciousness

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

Political, Use, Violence

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

Community, Feminism

"Gloria Steinem On The Great Part Of Feminism:BBAACCSS1‘We Have Each Other’s Backs’" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2014.

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

Wish, Needs, Golden

As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that progress and pleasure go together.

Dream, Humorous, Justice

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

Blessing, Body, Bless

Gloria Steinem (1992). “Revolution from Within”

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Believe, Unhappy, Would Be

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

it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

Sex, Pornography

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Imagination, Television, Tvs

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.132, Open Road Media

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

Generations, Four, Violence

Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.156, Oneworld Publications

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

Thinking, Hierarchy, Division

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

Men, Knows, Can Do

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

Passion, Crime, Possession

I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.

Bullshit, Feminist, Humanity

"Gloria Steinem On What Men Have To Gain From Feminism" by Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2015.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

People, Matter, Responsible

"This Is What 80 Looks Like". Interview with Gail Collins, www.nytimes.com. March 22, 2014.

Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

Art, Lying, Thinking

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

Nature, Moving, Lines

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.12, Open Road Media

... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

Honesty, Powerful, Groups

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.14, Open Road Media

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