Gloria Steinem - People Quotes

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If you think about Martin Luther King and others in the leadership of the Civil Rights movement, they were all college-educated, middle class people. Nobody tries to diminish the Civil Rights movement by saying they were middle class.
It's true that the National Organization for Women in its early years was white middle class. But once it was joined by younger women from civil rights groups like SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) it changed profoundly. In any case, my life's ambition is to make white women as smart as black women. Because the group of women who still vote against their own self-interest are white married women.

Gloria Steinem
The patterns that are normalized in the family — the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways — that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.

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I think feminists and progressive Democrats err when they accusingly say to Republican women, How can you be a Republican? Nobody responds to that. But if you say, Look, you didn't leave your party. The party left you. Let's just look at the issues and see what they are and forget about party labels and vote for ourselves, I think people would really respond.

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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

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It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

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

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Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

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We've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

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