Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 9

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• The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

  Gloria Steinem

  Family, Sex, Believe

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• The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

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  Daughter, Way, Example

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• It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

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  Witty, Circles, Political

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• change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

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  Change, Thinking, Ideas

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• Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

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  Inspiring, Sad, Death

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.232, Open Road Media

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• It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.

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  Distance, Successful, Years

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

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  Sleep, Way, Ifs

  "Why Gloria Steinem Says She And Jennifer Aniston Are In ‘Deep Sh*t’". Q&A with Jennifer Aniston at the MAKERS Conference, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

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  Thinking, Media, People

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

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• It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

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  Children, Fundamentals, Humans

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

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  Men, Doe, Mediocre

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."

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  Couple, Growth, Helpful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone is unique and each experience is different.

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  Unique, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

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  Childhood, Instinct, Beaten

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Most books are bought by women.

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  Book

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Women and men are equal human beings.

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  Men, Equal, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have to know before we can act.

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  Knows

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.

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  Home, Years, Childhood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

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  Feels, Isolated, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

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  Art

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

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  Moving, Imagine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that art has incredible power.

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  Art, Believe, I Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

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  Boys, Roles, Gender

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

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  Gay, Males, Female

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• the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

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  Powerful, Men, Order

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.289, Open Road Media

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• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

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  Country, Children, Emotional

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