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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 18

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Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

Real, Humorous, Gay

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Children, Black And White, Woods

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

Life, Healing, Journey

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.128, Open Road Media

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

Teenager, Ghetto, Self Confidence

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

Math, Anxiety, Use

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.355, Open Road Media

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Self Esteem, Luxury, Factories

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.26, Open Road Media

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

Feminist, Patriarch, Capitalism

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

Children, Ideas, Symbolism

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

Art, Work Out, Training

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

Numbers, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

Source: bluestockingsmag.com

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

Children, Opposites, Long

Source: www.pbs.org

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

Moving, College, Ideas

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

It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

Adventure, Successful, Thinking

Source: www.elle.com

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

Teacher, Long, People

"The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.

Thinking, Important, Feminine

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and until women are as active outside the home as men are, we won't have democratic families, and therefore we won't have democracy, and we will continue this hierarchical notion of life.

Children, Home, Men

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

Country, Thinking, Equal Pay

Source: www.elle.com

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

Busier, Expected

Source: www.elle.com

I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.

Worry, Should, Companion

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

Rights, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

Source: www.elle.com

We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.

Moving, Expression, Identity

Source: transadvocate.com

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

Country, Military, Democracy

Source: www.washingtontimes.com

If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

Children, Thinking, Understanding

Source: www.washingtontimes.com

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

Thinking, Understanding, Important

Source: muse.jhu.edu

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

Effectiveness, Voting, Problem

Source: muse.jhu.edu

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