99+ Gloria Steinem Quotes on Feminism, Equality and Death - Quotes.pub

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The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.

Firsts Quotes

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Intelligence Quotes

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.

Country Quotes

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

Country Quotes

Inner space is the real frontier.

Real Quotes

If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.

Real Quotes

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Helping others Quotes / Waiting Quotes

Everyone is unique and each experience is different.

Different Quotes

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.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We’re responsible for changing it, yes. But we can’t actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

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

Altogether, I can’t imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

If someone called me a lesbian – in those days all single feminists were assumed to be lesbians – I learned just to say, “Thank you.” It disclosed nothing, confused the accuser, conveyed solidarity with women who were lesbians, and made the audience laugh.

Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they’re kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense – and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay?

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

Men can be just as loving and nurturing as women – it’s a libel on men to say they can’t – but we all learn by example. Boys just need nurturing men in their lives so they know it’s okay for them to be nurturing.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

Real Quotes Book Quotes

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it’s still there.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

I’m still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about “self-esteem” would have seemed like a luxury.

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.

I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn’t demand a choice between nesting and flight.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a ‘spinster of arts’ degree they would see how important this is.

Secrets have power only as long as they are secret.

Laughter is a rescue. p.204.

I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don’t think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn’t yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Book Quotes Reading Quotes

I can go on the road – because I can come home. I come home – because I’m free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

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.

Male silence is not the same as listening.

The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women’s groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

In fact, there are many unique satisfactions here. One is that Americans seem to outstrip every nation for hope. Perhaps because so many of us came in flight from something worse, or rose from poverty here, or absorbed the fact and fiction of the “land of opportunity,” or just because optimism itself is contagious – whatever the reason, hopefulness is what I miss the most when I’m not here. It’s the thing that makes me glad to come home. After all, hope is a form of planning.

Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find that a traveling woman – perhaps especially a traveling feminist – becomes a kind of celestial bartender.

It’s especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you’re so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

So many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers.

Take public speaking: I spent all of my twenties and early thirties avoiding it. When I once asked a speech teacher about my aversion, she explained that dancers and writers were especially difficult to teach to speak in public, since both had chosen a profession in which they didn’t have to talk – and I had been both.

I’m also now immune to politicians who say, “I’ve traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know... ” I’ve traveled more than any of them, and I don’t know.

Sometimes when I’m in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, ‘Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.

In the words of so many daughters who don’t yet know that a female fate is not a personal fault, I told myself: I’m not going to be anything like my mother.

Language can’t solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

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.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

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