Gloria Steinem Quotes And Sayings

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, Steinem published an article, “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation,” which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader.

A Gender-equal Society Would Be One Where The Word 'Gender' Does Not Exist: Where Everyone Can Be Themselves.

The First Problem For All Of Us, Men And Women, Is Not To Learn, But To Unlearn.

Obviously, No Lgbt Person Should Be Denied The Ability To Be Who They Are Because Their Boss Disagrees.

Most Women Are One Man Away From Welfare.

There's No Greater Gift Than Thinking That You Had Some Impact On The World, For The Better.

Logic Is In The Eye Of The Logician.

The Only Thing I Can't Stand Is Discomfort.

We Can Tell Our Values By Looking At Our Checkbook Stubs.

It Is More Rewarding To Watch Money Change The World Than Watch It Accumulate.

I Will No Longer Be Referred To As Miss Steinem Of Ms. Magazine.

If Women Have Young Children, They Are One Man Away From Welfare.

For Much Of The Female Half Of The World, Food Is The First Signal Of Our Inferiority. It Lets Us Know That Our Own Families May Consider Female Bodies To Be Less Deserving, Less Needy, Less Valuable.

If The Shoe Doesn't Fit, Must We Change The Foot?

Because I Have Work To Care About, It Is Possible That I May Be Less Difficult To Get Along With Than Other Women When The Double Chins Start To Form.

A Movement Is Only Composed Of People Moving. To Feel Its Warmth And Motion Around Us Is The End As Well As The Means.

The Danger Of The Internet Is Cocooning With The Like-minded Online - Of Sending An Email Or Twitter And Confusing That With Action - While The Real Corporate And Military And Government Centers Of Power Go Right On.

Burnout Is A Way Of Telling You That Your Form Of Activism Was Perhaps Not Very Full Circle.

Secretary Of State Is Far Superior To Vice President, Because It's Involved In Continuously Solving Problems And Making Policy And Not Being On Standby.

There Are Six Million Female Lives Lost In The World Every Year Simply Because They Are Female.

I Hope To Live To 100. There Is So Much To Do.

If You Are Not A Feminist In Love, You Fail To Recognise Someone Who Does Not Love You. Feminism Makes Love Easier. Otherwise, There Is The Danger Of Feeling Romantically Drawn To Someone Who Does Not See You As An Equal.

Society Certainly Encourages Women To Be Victims In Every Way.

Childbirth Is More Admirable Than Conquest, More Amazing Than Self-defense, And As Courageous As Either One.

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 Didn't Go To School A Full Year Until I Was 11 Or 12, So I Lived In Books. I Really Was An Observer Of Life.

Every Social Justice Movement That I Know Of Has Come Out Of People Sitting In Small Groups, Telling Their Life Stories, And Discovering That Other People Have Shared Similar Experiences.

You Know There Is A Person Inside Every Baby, Right? And Anybody Who Has Ever Met A Baby Knows There Is Already A Person In There.

If You Hear A Statistic, You Will Make Up A Story To Go With It, Because Our Brains Are Organized On Narrative. And You May Very Well Make Up A Wrong Story Because You Only Have One Fact, Which Is A Statistic.

Anything Can Be Used For Or Against The Welfare Of Women - Or The Welfare Of Anyone - Depending On Who Controls It.

The Republican Party Supported The Equal Rights Amendment Before The Democratic Party Did. But What Happened Was That A Lot Of Very Right-wing Democrats, After The Civil Rights Bill Of 1964, Left The Democratic Party And Gradually Have Taken Over The Republican Party.

I Started Out Life As A Writer, And Writers Write In Part Because They Don't Want To Talk.

I Can Say Whatever It Is That I Feel.

In A General Way, Anything That Affects Men Is Taken More Seriously Than Anything That Affects Only Women.

Liberation Does Not Come From Outside.

If You Say, I'm For Equal Pay, That's A Reform. But If You Say. I'm A Feminist, That's A Transformation Of Society.

Rich Cultures, Patriarchal Cultures, Value Thin Women, Like Ours; Poor Ones Value Fat Women. But All Patriarchal Cultures Value Weak Women. So For Women To Become Physically Strong Is Very Profound.

Women Tend To Need The Healthcare System More Because We Bear Children. Insurance Companies - Not All Of Them, But Many Of Them - 'Gender-rate.' Women May Pay 40% More For Their Health Insurance Than Men Do.

It's Heartbreaking To Watch People Working Against Themselves.

The Native American Cultures On This Continent, Most Of Them, Were Matrilineal, And Some Women Were The Chiefs. Societies Were About Balance.

Women Are Liked Better When They Lose.

Perfect Is Boring: Beauty Is Irregular.

I Was Never Against Marriage Per Se. Before Feminism, I Didn't Think You Had Any Choice. In Fact, For A Long Time I Always Assumed I Would Get Married. I Just Didn't See Any Marriages I Wanted To Emulate, So I Kept Putting It Off.

The Same Way That Racism Is A White Person's Problem, Violence Against Women Is A Men's Problem.

I Keep Thinking: 'Georgia O'keeffe Wouldn't Have Had Botox.'

What Is Frustrating Is Being Told That No Matter How Hard I've Worked, It Counts Less Than My Appearance. Although If You're Not Considered Conventionally Attractive, That Also Becomes An Issue: You Know, You're A Feminist Because You Couldn't Get A Man.

As For The American Child's Classic Problem - Too Much Mother, Too Little Father - That Would Be Cured By An Equalization Of Parental Responsibility.

What I've Learned Is That Unless It's An Emergency, Like A Fire Or Brain Surgery, Hierarchy Is Not Necessary And May Be Damaging. If You Have A Hierarchy, You're Repeating The Strengths And Weaknesses Of One Person Without Allowing For The Accumulative Strength Of A Group.

This Country Can No Longer Afford To Choose Our Leaders From A Talent Pool Limited By Sex, Race, Money, Powerful Fathers And Paper Degrees. It's Time To Take Equal Pride In Breaking All The Barriers.

I Think If Women Are Visible In The Media, Truly Visible, In An Empowered Role, It Empowers Us To Be More Visible In Any Area Of Our Lives.

All Those Chemicals That Create Empathy Only Work When You Are In A Room Together.