Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 11

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• In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Home, Equality

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• Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminism, Revolution

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• If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Men

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• Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Way, Married, Traditional

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• I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

  Gloria Steinem

  Long, Humanist, Bad Word

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Leader

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Believe, People

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

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• I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Masculinity, Prove

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• Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

  Gloria Steinem

  Rebel, Female, Doe

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Revolution, Groups

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Impact, World

  Source: collider.com

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• A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Waiting, Movement

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

  Gloria Steinem

  Say Anything, Groups, Can Not

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• Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Self, Defense

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

  Gloria Steinem

  Order, Body, Violence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

  Gloria Steinem

  Community, Progress, Body

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Needs, Violence

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Racism, Made

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Feminist, Important

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

  Gloria Steinem

  Crazy, Care, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?

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  Presidential, Would Be, Needs

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

  Gloria Steinem

  Discovery, Joy, Age

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.

  Gloria Steinem

  Support, Needs, We Need Each Other

  Source: bigthink.com

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