Gloria Steinem Quotes

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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

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

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

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Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

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Old or new, this wisdom too often remains in our heads. Only experience can make it a visceral part of our daily lives by bridging the distance from head to heart.

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Pornography is about dominance and often pain. Erotica is about mutuality and always pleasure.

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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.

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Human beings have an almost infinite capacity for adapting to the expectations around us — which is both the good news and the bad news.

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The act of acting morally is behaving AS IF EVERYTHING WE DO MATTERS.

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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. After all, a movement is only people moving.

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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

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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.

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Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

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I'm at the age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.

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Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

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

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Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

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As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, "Oh no, that's women's work." Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizens' skin.

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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

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You never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.

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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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The alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

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I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

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