Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 8

All Quotes Abortion Abuse Accomplishment Age Art Belief Blame Change Childhood Children Choices Community Consciousness Country Crime Culture Democracy Discrimination Diversity Economics Effort Empathy Equality Expectations Feelings Feminism Finding Yourself Fun Gender Giving Growth Healing Heart History Home House Humanity Husband Imagination Inspirational Inspiring Justice Language Life Listening Logic Love Lying Marriage Masculinity Military Motivational Past Politics Power Progress Quality Racism Responsibility Revolution Self Esteem Sexism Silence Sin Son Suffering Survival Understanding Violence Voting Waiting Wall War Work Worry Writing Youth

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.

Children, Men, Survival

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

Daughter, Way, Example

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

Discrimination, Qualified

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.466, Open Road Media

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Freedom, Choices

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

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

Jobs, Children, Two

I’ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn’t have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That’s so rare. So we have to look at the reality and not romanticize it. We have to be clear that you have the right to sell your own body but nobody has the right to sell anybody else’s body. No one has that right.

Reality, Pimp, Body

Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

We teach what we need to learn.

Inspirational, Teaching, Needs

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.9, Open Road Media

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Dark, Shining, Curiosity

Gloria Steinem (2013). “Marilyn: Norma Jeane”, p.183, Open Road Media

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Justice, People, Sitting

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Inspiring, Body, Demand

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

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Details, May, Paganism

Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Wealth, Feminine, Masculinity

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Pregnancy, Self, Defense

Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

Children, Real, Technology

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Mother, Father, Pride

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.231, Open Road Media

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

Prejudice, Mark, Landmines

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.186, Open Road Media

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Equality, Men, Feminist

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Witty, Powerful, Philosophy

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.509, Open Road Media

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

Writing, Pride, Accomplishment

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Gambling, Instinct, Satisfied

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

Writing, Creative Writing, Written

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

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Women, Memorable, Feminist

Interview with Digby Diehl, www.maryellenmark.com. March 1972.

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Marriage, Men, Gambling

There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

Superwoman, Super Woman, Ifs

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Writing, Should, Feels

You May Also Like: