Gloria Steinem > Quotes

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
― Gloria Steinem

“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 . . . She will need her sisterhood.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
― Gloria Steinem

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
― Gloria Steinem

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

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry”
― Gloria Steinem

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
― Gloria Steinem

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”
― Gloria Steinem

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”
― Gloria Steinem

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
― Gloria Steinem

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
― Gloria Steinem

“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”
― Gloria Steinem

“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!”
― Gloria Steinem

“Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage”
― Gloria Steinem

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”
― Gloria Steinem

“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ”
― Gloria Steinem, Herstory

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ”
― Gloria Steinem

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”
― Gloria Steinem

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.”
― Gloria Steinem

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”
― Gloria Steinem

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful”
― Gloria Steinem

“It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back defiantly at a policeman — and when that policeman senses a sudden refusal to accept his defining gaze — as the imperceptible moment in which rebellion is born. "All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people," Kapuscinski writes. "They should begin with a psychological chapter — one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid. This unusual process — sometimes accomplished in an instant, like a shock — demands to be illustrated. Man gets rid of fear and feel free. Without that, there would be no revolution.”
― Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within

“However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must
start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that
right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However
far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power
and airtight roles within the family.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”
― Gloria Steinem

“The truth will set you free. But first it'll piss you off.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.”
― Gloria Steinem

“In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.”
― Gloria Steinem

“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.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn

“Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted... But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness—and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. [...] Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. They have to say 'discourse', not 'talk'. Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Adalah revolusionar bagi perempuan untuk menyanyikan kepedihan, tapi lebih lagi bila ia menyanyikan seluruh lagu kehidupan”
― Gloria Steinem

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.
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― Gloria Steinem