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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 5

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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

Real, Believe, People

Source: transadvocate.com

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

Domestic Violence, Alive, Might

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Men, Expression, Vivacious

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.293, Open Road Media

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Mother, Children, Father

"A New Egalitarian Life Style". www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1971.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Essentials, Want, Fool

Gloria Steinem's Commencement Address at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. May 17, 1987.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Inspirational, Money, Powerful

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Thinking, Games, People

"Gloria Steinem Responds to Mileygate". www.yahoo.com. October 9, 2013.

There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster. Make America a man again." That sums up his attitudes: pro-military, anti-equality, pro-rich, anti-poor.

Attitude, Military, Home

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Relationship, Marriage, Married

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

Children, Parasites, Housewife

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Country, Childhood, Different

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Men, Needs, Golden

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

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Art, Feminist, Revolution

Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Men, Voting, Billionaire

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

Air, Rivers, Water

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.421, Open Road Media

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

Ideas, People, Three

Source: bluestockingsmag.com

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

Simple, Economic Value, Giving

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Class, Planning Ahead, Goal

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.272, Open Road Media

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

Process, Lifelong

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Moving, Mean, Weekend

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.485, Open Road Media

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Race, Radical Feminism, Feminist

"Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2005.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Men, Becoming, He Man

In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

Sex, Littles, Imbalance

Religion is often politics made sacred.

Sacred, Made

Source: edition.cnn.com

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

Thinking, Looks

"They should call it THEN". www.washingtontimes.com. July 13, 2001.

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