Gloria Steinem quotes - page 6

The Arab Spring did a great deal for women because the person who spread the word in the first place was a woman. Women participated in it; they were fully out there in the street. (Gloria Steinem)
You can compel love, actually, if somebody is isolated and dependent - it's like the Stockholm syndrome. But you can't compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly. View quote
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I can't think of anything more crucial than real Republicans taking back the GOP. View quote
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Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what the dictionary says "feminism" means, is enough to make a revolution in itself. View quote
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Regarding the idea that the women's movement is white and middle class - a fair share of the country is white and middle class. View quote
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The men I've met who were the best allies of feminism are those who see their stake in it; who see that they themselves are being limited by a culture that deprives men of human qualities deemed feminine, which are actually just the qualities necessary to raise kids - empathy and attention to detail and patience. View quote
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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. View quote
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This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. View quote
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. View quote
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Laughter is a rescue. p.204. View quote
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Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't. (Gloria Steinem)
As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies. View quote
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When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses. View quote
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Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak. View quote
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Decisions are best made by the people affected by them. View quote
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If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. View quote
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Always ask the turtle. View quote
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If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye. View quote
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Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative. View quote
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I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize. View quote
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I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so. (Gloria Steinem)
It's said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. View quote
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No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence. View quote
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The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories-in short, out of our heads and into our hearts. View quote
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There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. View quote
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