Gloria Steinem Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.†I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.”
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“The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.”
-- Gloria SteinemSource : Source: bigthink.com
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“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
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“I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.”
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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
-- Gloria SteinemSource : "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.
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“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.”
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“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
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“I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.”
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“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”
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“I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.”
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“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”
-- Gloria SteinemSource : Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.27, Open Road Media
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“Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.”
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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.”
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“There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.”
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“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
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“I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.”
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“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
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“I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.”
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“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
-- Gloria SteinemSource : "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.
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“Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.”
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“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”
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“Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.”
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“Most women are one man away from welfare.”
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“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”
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“Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night”
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“Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,†it helps other people do the same.”
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“I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.”
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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.”
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“Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.”
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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
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