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Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 7

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More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

Jobs, Home, Men

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.250, Open Road Media

It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

Mean, Years, Lasts

Source: www.elle.com

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Equal Pay, Feminist, Reform

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

People, Choices, Events

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

Children, Kids, Men

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.

Moving, Thinking, Two

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external.

Unique, Way, Pressure

Source: www.elle.com

The political is personal.

Political, Feminism, Politics

Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.127, Random House

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Anorexia, Mind, Toledo

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Witty, Circles, Political

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Inspiring, Sad, Death

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.232, Open Road Media

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

Sarcastic, Water, Bugs

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Work, Definitions

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

Past, College, Cake

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.198, Open Road Media

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

Boss, Experts, Persons

Tufts University Commencement Speech, gos.sbc.edu. May 17, 1987.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Self Esteem, Blessing, Serious

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.396, Open Road Media

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

Life, Childhood, Late

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Book, Reading, News

"Valley of the Dolls doesn't have to stay relevant to be a camp classic" by Judy Berman, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2016.

I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.

Girlfriend, Humorous, Henry Kissinger

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

Knowing, Creative, Inspire

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Heart, Suffering, Worst

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.214, Open Road Media

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Social Values, Racism, Reconstruction

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.374, Open Road Media

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Giving Up, Light, People

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

Change, Thinking, Ideas

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Government, Evil, Retrospect

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.480, Open Road Media

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