Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 5

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

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  Essentials, Want, Fool

  Gloria Steinem's Commencement Address at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. May 17, 1987.

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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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• Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Expression, Vivacious

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.293, Open Road Media

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• A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

  Gloria Steinem

  Rejection, Way, Blame

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.287, Open Road Media

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• We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

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  Strong Women, World, Changing The World

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

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• I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Games, People

  "Gloria Steinem Responds to Mileygate". www.yahoo.com. October 9, 2013.

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

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  Domestic Violence, Alive, Might

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

  Gloria Steinem

  Relationship, Marriage, Married

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• Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

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  Children, Parasites, Housewife

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• We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Money, Powerful

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• Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

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  Country, Childhood, Different

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• There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster. Make America a man again." That sums up his attitudes: pro-military, anti-equality, pro-rich, anti-poor.

  Gloria Steinem

  Attitude, Military, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

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  Men, Needs, Golden

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

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  Art, Feminist, Revolution

  Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

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  Air, Rivers, Water

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.421, Open Road Media

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• Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, People, Three

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

  Gloria Steinem

  Simple, Economic Value, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  "Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2005.

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• A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

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  Moving, Mean, Weekend

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.485, Open Road Media

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• At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Becoming, He Man

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