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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 3

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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Pain, Believe, Abuse

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

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

Believe, Writing

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.42, Open Road Media

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Strong Women, Taken, Power

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.577, Open Road Media

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

Husband, Home, Men

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

Men, Culture, Way

Source: www.elle.com

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

Strong Women, Crazy, Differences

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

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

Dream, Kindness, Ambition

Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Men, Two, Funny Marriage

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Children, Believe, Years

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Feminist, Skins, Citizens

We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.

Daughter, Son, Ideas

Source: www.elle.com

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Home, Men, Feminist

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Two, Choices, Feminist

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

Self, Hatred, Needs

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.14, Open Road Media

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Boys, Librarian, Nancy

I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

Class, Ideas, Racist

Source: www.elle.com

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

War, Dirty, Army

Ms., Spring 1972

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

Children, Mean, Way

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.

Business, Two, People

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

Ideas, Matter, Want

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

Home, Long, Faces

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

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Jobs, Pie, Feminism

"Wrong woman, wrong message" by Gloria Steinem, articles.latimes.com. September 4, 2008.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Believe, Self, Creating

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.190, Open Road Media

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Men, Chance

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Marriage, Jobs, Sex

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