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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 6

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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Self, Logic, Oppression

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.179, Open Road Media

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

Jobs, Men, White Man

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.505, Open Road Media

For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

Mean, Giving, Able

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

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Past, Imagination, Mourning

Gloria Steinem (2013). “Marilyn: Norma Jeane”, p.15, Open Road Media

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

Integrity, Abortion, Skins

Source: www.elle.com

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Healing, Groups, Transformation

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

Mean, Men, Waiting

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.176, Open Road Media

We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

Jobs, Children, Home

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Sexism, Inevitable, Controlling Women

Source: www.washingtontimes.com

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

Voting, Can Do

Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.124, Oneworld Publications

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Cupcakes, America, People

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Textbooks

If you really want to be lonely, get married.

Lonely, Want, Married

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Intelligence, Instinct, Poor

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

Men, Quality, Gains

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Empathy, Emotion, Revolutionary

"Why Gloria Steinem Says She And Jennifer Aniston Are In ‘Deep Sh*t’". MAKERS Conference Q&A, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Sex, Taken, Barriers

"Women Are Never Front-Runners" by Gloria Steinem, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2008.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Equality, Law, Justice

"Open Secrets : Ninety-four Women in Touch with Our Time". Book by Barbaralee Diamonstein, 1972.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Mother, Generations, My Generation

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Simple, Views, Feminism

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Money, Giving, Watches

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Strong Women, World, Changing The World

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

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

Nurse, Racism, Black

I don't like writing. I like having written.

Writing, Written

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Our World, Males, Half

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