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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 17

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Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

Sex, Heart, Aggression And Violence

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.339, Open Road Media

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

Revenge, Children, People

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.99, Open Road Media

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

Wall, Shopping, Style

Liberation does not come from outside.

Doe, Liberation

Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 1999.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Opposites, Anxiety, Individuality

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Husband, Men, Feminist

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Real, Unique, Feminist

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

Powerful, Adjectives, Nouns

[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

Children, Female, Reason

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

Sleep, Thinking, Clothes

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

Gratitude, Past, Care

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Dominance, Pornography

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions "Erotica vs. Pornography" (1983)

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

Work, Home, Men

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.242, Open Road Media

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

Believe, Numbers, Justice

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.364, Open Road Media

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

Unique, Years, Body

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

Lying, Long, Looks

c.1974 Response when complimented by a reporter on not looking forty years old, quoted by Lisa Jardine in 'Still Angry After All These Years', in the SundayTimes,15 May1994.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

Mirrors, Want, Matter

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Jobs, Ideas, Needs

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Food, Deserving It, Feminist

Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.855, Open Road Media

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Motivational, Women, Feminist

"Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in" by Gregg Jarrett, www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

Women get hit with a double whammy. If they're attractive, they're presumed to have slept their way to the top. If they're unattractive, they are presumed to have chosen a profession because they could not get a man.

Men, Unattractive, Way

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

Mean, Empathy, Violence

It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.

Media, Diversity, Growth

During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

Country, Years, Gathering

[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

Baby, Military, Real

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