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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 4

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If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because

If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

Sex, Years, Holocaust

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Men, Emotional, Long

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.555, Open Road Media

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Women, Space, Pedestal

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

Children, Unique, Self

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

Sex, Race, Liberty

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

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

Rejection, Way, Blame

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.287, Open Road Media

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

Thinking, Law, Innovation

Source: www.elle.com

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Believe, Unique, Self

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

Lying, Two, People

Source: www.pbs.org

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Courage, Moving, Brave

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.190, Open Road Media

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

Past, Equal

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Dream, Believe, Long

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

Men, Talking, Masculine And Feminine

Source: www.pbs.org

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

Order, Belief, Injustice

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.538, Open Road Media

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

Strong, Children, Mean

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

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Empathy, Stories, Want

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Generations, Violence, Raised

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

Individual Choice, Racism, Choices

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Children, Women, Careers

Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Women, Home, Play

Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Dream, Ideas, Doe

Source: www.elle.com

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Funny, Marriage, Witty

Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

Religious, Men, Names

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Feminist, Waiting, Feminism

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