Gloria Steinem quotes - page 4

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. (Gloria Steinem)
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. View quote
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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. View quote
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. View quote
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Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. View quote
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. View quote
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset. View quote
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As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, "Oh no, that's women's work." Logic has nothing to do with oppression. View quote
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so whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. View quote
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You're always the* person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it. View quote
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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist. (Gloria Steinem)
Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed. View quote
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I've learned from these events that self-esteem plays as much a part in the destiny of nations as it does in the lives of individuals; that self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated; that citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform their countries; in short, that self-esteem is the basis of any real democracy. View quote
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Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy. View quote
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Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don't have to put on an act. If I'm not feminine enough for someone, I don't care, because femininity is different in everyone's mind. View quote
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I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go. View quote
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Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the "Aha!” that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down. View quote
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I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves. View quote
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Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice. View quote
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Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain. View quote
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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. (Gloria Steinem)
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. View quote
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What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. View quote
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The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. View quote
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. View quote
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