Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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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.
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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
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I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
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When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
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Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.
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A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
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It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.
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If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.
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I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'
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If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
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It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
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An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
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There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.
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We have to know before we can act.
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Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.
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God knows (She knows) that women try.
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Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
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