Gloria Steinem Quotes And Sayings

Feminism Began To Dawn On My Brain Belatedly In Life.

The Abolition And Suffrage Movements Progressed When United And Were Damaged By Division; We Should Remember That.

It's Easier To Blame The Person With Less Power.

The Aids Crisis Has Brought Us A Consciousness Of The Immune System As The Most Important Health-maintenance Element, And A Consciousness Of How It Is Under Attack.

One's Enemies Are Always Talking About 'Post-feminism.' It Is A Word Invented By People Who Would Like To Do Away With Feminism.

Pop Culture Shapes Our Ideas Of What Is Normal And What Our Dreams Can Be And What Our Roles Are. Politics, Of Course, Decides How The Power And The Money In The Country Is Distributed. Both Are Equally Important, And Each Affects The Other.

Obviously, There Is Much Similarity Among The Challenges Of Transgender People And All Women - From Health Care To Harassment To Discrimination In The Workplace.

Mama Grizzlies Mate Later Than Other Bears. They Have Two Cubs Instead Of Four. They Wait Four Years - About Twice As Long As Other Bears - Between Having Cubs. And After They're Pregnant, If Winter Is Hard Or Their Health Is Not Good Or The Food Supply Is Uncertain, They Re-absorb The Embryo Into Their Body.

Nothing Changes The Gender Equation More Significantly Than Women's Economic Freedom.

From Pacifist To Terrorist, Each Person Condemns Violence - And Then Adds One Cherished Case In Which It May Be Justified.

The Error That We Tend To Make Is That We Think That Women's Magazines Are What Editors Want And What Their Readers Want - And Thus Are Social Indicators - When, In Fact, They Are What Advertisers Want. They're Just Advertising Indicators.

A Pedestal Is As Much A Prison As Any Small, Confined Space.

It's An Incredible Con Job When You Think About It, To Believe Something Now In Exchange For Something After Death. Even Corporations With Their Reward Systems Don't Try To Make It Posthumous.

We've Begun To Raise Daughters More Like Sons... But Few Have The Courage To Raise Our Sons More Like Our Daughters.

God May Be In The Details, But The Goddess Is In The Questions. Once We Begin To Ask Them, There's No Turning Back.

People Start To Talk About Post-racist, Post-feminist. What Does That Mean? We're Clearly Not Post Either. Would You Say Post-democracy? Clearly We Haven't Reached True Democracy Yet.

Whatever Each Individual Woman Is Facing - Only She Knows Her Biggest Challenge.

When I'm Talking To Groups That Are All Men, We Talk About How The Masculine Role Limits Them. They Often Want To Talk About How They Missed Having Real Fathers, Real Loving, Present Fathers, Because Of The Way That They Tried To Fit The Picture Of Masculinity.

When I'm Talking To Groups That Are All Men, We Talk About How The Masculine Role Limits Them. They Often Want To Talk About How They Missed Having Real Fathers, Real Loving, Present Fathers, Because Of The Way That They Tried To Fit The Picture Of Masculinity.

There Is Nothing More Fundamental Than The Idea That The Government Does Not Have A Right To Decide When And Whether We Have Children.

Monotheism Makes Me Grouchy. I Don't Trust Any Religion That Makes God Look Like One Of The Ruling Class. I Guess I'm A Pagan Or An Animist.

You Can See The Absence Of Women In Governing Bodies From Congress To State Legislators, On Corporate Boards, In Tenured Positions In Academia, And As Forepeople In Factories.

The Surest Way To Be Alone Is To Get Married.

Any Woman Who Chooses To Behave Like A Full Human Being Should Be Warned That The Armies Of The Status Quo Will Treat Her As Something Of A Dirty Joke. That's Their Natural And First Weapon. She Will Need Her Sisterhood.

The Most Hurtful Thing Is Not What Comes From Our Adversaries, It's What Comes From Our Friends.

Anger Is Energising. The Opposite Of Anger Is Depression, Which Is Anger Turned Inward.

To Say 'Radical Feminist' Is Only A Way Of Indicating That I Believe The Sexual Caste System Is A Root Of Race And Class And Other Divisions.

I Have Yet To Hear A Man Ask For Advice On How To Combine Marriage And A Career.

Clearly No One Knows What Leadership Has Gone Undiscovered In Women Of All Races, And In Black And Other Minority Men.

Like Art, Revolutions Come From Combining What Exists Into What Has Never Existed Before.

Actually, I Believe There Are More Independents Than Either Republicans Or Democrats, And Yet Those Are The... That Is The Choice We Have On The Party Ballot.

I Am Not Patient.

Republicans May Learn They Can't Appeal To Right-wing Patriarchs And Most Women At The Same Time.

Having One's Traditional Role Questioned Is Not A Very Comfortable Experience, Perhaps Especially For Women, Who Have Been Able To Remain Children, And To Benefit From Work They Did Not And Could Not Do.

Movements Are Like Rivers. Dipping Into Them Is Never The Same Twice.

Some Of Us Are Becoming The Men We Wanted To Marry.

A Woman Without A Man Is Like A Fish Without A Bicycle.

Being Misunderstood By People Whose Opinions You Value Is Absolutely The Most Painful.

Most Women's Magazines Simply Try To Mold Women Into Bigger And Better Consumers.

I'd Like To Be Played As A Child By Natalie Wood. I'd Have Some Romantic Scenes As Audrey Hepburn And Have Gritty Black-and-white Scenes As Patricia Neal.

We Need To Remember Across Generations That There Is As Much To Learn As There Is To Teach.

Power Can Be Taken, But Not Given. The Process Of The Taking Is Empowerment In Itself.

A Liberated Woman Is One Who Has Sex Before Marriage And A Job After.

Most American Children Suffer Too Much Mother And Too Little Father.

America Is An Enormous Frosted Cupcake In The Middle Of Millions Of Starving People.

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?

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.

In My Own Mind, I Am Still A Fat Brunette From Toledo, And I Always Will Be.

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.

Work Is Valued By The Social Value Of The Worker.