Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 4

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• imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Creating

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Law, Innovation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Pie, Feminism

  "Wrong woman, wrong message" by Gloria Steinem, articles.latimes.com. September 4, 2008.

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• If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Lying, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• How ever 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, religion or all four.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Liberty

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Years, Holocaust

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• But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Unique, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, Equal

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• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Unique, Self

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• I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

  Gloria Steinem

  Courage, Moving, Brave

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Talking, Masculine And Feminine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong, Children, Mean

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

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• What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

  Gloria Steinem

  Generations, Violence, Raised

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• I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dream, Believe, Long

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• ... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individual Choice, Racism, Choices

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• There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

  Gloria Steinem

  Order, Belief, Injustice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.538, Open Road Media

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• I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

  Gloria Steinem

  Empathy, Stories, Want

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• 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

  Women, Home, Play

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

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• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Women, Careers

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

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• Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dream, Ideas, Doe

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

  Gloria Steinem

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

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• No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Men, Names

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• I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

  Gloria Steinem

  Domestic Violence, Alive, Might

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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