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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 2

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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Women, Equality, Empowering

"Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Men, Long, Brag

When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

Moving, Talking, Impact

Source: www.elle.com

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Helping Others, People, Waiting

Helping begins with listening.

Listening, Helping

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

Distance, Heart

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Women, Feminist, Feminism

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.326, Open Road Media

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Change, Shoes, Feet

Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.882, Open Road Media

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

Thinking, Looks, Way

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

Want

Source: collider.com

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Inspirational, Hope, Badass

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.182, Open Road Media

Behave like everything you do matters.

Matter, Behave

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

Children, Happens, Ifs

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

Work, People, Waiting

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Marriage, Witty, Work

Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

Change, Happens, Depends

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

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Truth, Voice, Inner Voice

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.398, Open Road Media

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Giving Up, Approval, Easier

Inner space is the real frontier.

Real, Space, Frontiers

We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

Girl, Boys, Thinking

Source: www.pbs.org

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Reality, Needs, Generations

The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

Country, Children, Gun

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

Strong, Giving, Use

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

Dream, Real, Inspiration

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

People, Suffering, Invisible

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