Gloria Steinem Quotes And Sayings

A Majority Of Americans Want Redemption For Racism - For Our Terrible, Destructive Racist Past - And So See A Vote For Obama As Redemptive.

Female Inferiority Is Internalised By Us. Women Need A Lot More Confidence.

Gerda Lerner Was Fierce, Brilliant And Unique. She Lived History By Her Bravery, Restored History By Her Scholarship, And Democratized Its Study By Her Activism.

Girls Actually Need Superheroes Much More Than Boys.

I Think Hefner Himself Wants To Go Down In History As A Person Of Sophistication And Glamour. But The Last Person I Would Want To Go Down In History As Is Hugh Hefner.

The State Of Female Artists Is Very Good. But The Very Definition Of Art Has Been Biased In That 'Art' Was What Men Did In A European Tradition And 'Crafts' Were What Women And Natives Did. But It's Actually All The Same.

The Deepest Change Begins With Men Raising Children As Much As Women Do And Women Being Equal Actors In The World Outside The Home. There Are Many Ways Of Supporting That, From Something As Simple As Paid Sick Leave And Flexible Work Hours To Attributing An Economic Value To All Caregiving And Making That Amount Tax Deductible.

Hope Is A Very Unruly Emotion.

Fashion In The Past Meant Conforming And Losing Oneself. Fashion In The Present Means Being Individual And Finding Oneself.

We Must Begin To Shift The Emphasis Of Teen-age Pregnancy To Teen-age Boys.

Men Should Think Twice Before Making Widow Hood Woman's Only Path To Power.

If You're Going To Have A Male-dominant System, To Maintain The System, You Have To Teach Men To Dominate.

Men May Feel Just Disempowered By Intimacy, By Being Close To A Woman, And Also By Feeling The Tender Feelings That They're Ashamed Of.

What's So Valuable About Hbo Is They Tell Stories. We Learn From Stories.

Like So Many Women, I Was Living Out The Unlived Life Of My Mother - So I Wouldn't Be Her. But The Price I Paid Was That I Distanced Myself Internally.

You Can Compel Fear. You Can Even Make Someone Feel They're In Love If They're Isolated And Dependent For Long Enough. But Laughter Is Free.

Until The Masculine Role Is Humanized, Women Will Tend To Be Much Better At Solving Dangerous Conflicts.

I Hate To Generalize, But In General, Both Men And Women Suffer From Ageism. Men Much Less Because Men Gain Power As They Get Older. Women Lose Power As They Get Older. Men Are Seen As Gaining Experience And Being Distinguished. Sons Look Forward To Replacing Their Fathers.

The Mark, To Me, Of A Constructive Argument Is One That Looks At A Specific Problem And Says, 'What Shall We Do About This?' And A Nonconstructive One Is One That Tries To Label People.

These Poor Women In Academia Have To Talk This Silly Language That Nobody Can Understand In Order To Be Accepted, They Think.

The Women's Movement In England Was Totally Against Margaret Thatcher.

For Twenty Years, Not A Week Went By When I Wasn't On A Plane.

When I Had A Fellowship At The Smithsonian, I Asked For A Couch In The Office Because I Liked To Lie Down And Take A Break.

There's Nothing Automatic About Political Change, About Liberation.

I Remember Someone Once Asked Jack Kennedy Why He Was Paying Such Close Attention To The Renovation Of The Square Across From The White House, And He Said, 'It May Be The Only Thing My Presidency Is Remembered For.'

Part Of The Reason That Women Go To College Is To Get Out Of The Food Service, Clerical, Pink-collar Ghetto And Into A More White-collar Job. That Does Not Necessarily Mean They Are Being Paid More Than The Blue-collar Jobs Men Have.

All Women, And Men Of Color - We Were Owned Like Tables And Chairs. We Spent A Hundred Years Getting A Legal Identity As Human Beings. That's A Big Thing.

We Are Still Behaving As If A Worker Really Doesn't Have A Family Because The Work Pattern Really Was Meant For Men Who Really Were The Financial Support But Weren't Looking After Their Families. We Need To Change This, And We Can Easily Do That.

I Looked Up Affirmative Action Once In Wikipedia, And It Said, 'A Measure By Which White Men Are Discriminated Against,' And I Got So Mad.

I'm Lucky I Don't Make My Living In Front Of The Camera.

How Could You Not Love Norman Mailer? He Was A Total Chauvinist, But Also So Vulnerable.

What We Need To Be Able To Do Is Count All Human Experience. So I Would Like To Count The Secretarial Positions As Good Training Places To Take Over The Jobs Of The Bosses.

There's No Shortage Of Great Young Activists.

What Happens At 50, More Or Less, You Lose What You Need To Create Another Person, To Sustain Another Person; You Keep What You Need To Sustain Yourself. And There's Something Wonderful About That.

The Question Of Whether One Has One's Own Political Power Or Goes To Work For Someone Else Is Not Only A Feminist Question.

There's Been The Same Kind Of Demonizing Of The Word 'Feminism' As Words Like 'Liberal,' 'Affirmative Action,' And So On.

'Ms.' Always Flouted The Rules Of The Ad World That Say, Especially For Products Directed At Women, That The Ad Must Be Connected To The Editorial. You Don't Have Food Ads Unless You Have Recipes. You Don't Get Clothing Ads Unless You Have Lavish Fashion Coverage. We Never Did That; Every Other Women's Magazine Does.

Do Women Compete For The Favours Of Men? Yes. They've Spent 5,000 Years Competing.

After Feminism, I Suddenly Realised: Not Everyone Has To Live The Same Way. Imagine That!

I Was The First Woman To Speak Ever At The National Press Club, And They Gave Me A Necktie.

I Want To Help Correct The Inaccurate Image Of Immigration In The Media. There Is An Idea That Women's Issues Are Over Here And Immigration Is Over There. Three Quarters Of Undocumented Workers Are Women And Children.

I'm Not Saying That Women Leaders Would Eliminate Violence. We Are Not More Moral Than Men; We Are Only Uncorrupted By Power So Far. When We Do Acquire Power, We Might Turn Out To Have An Equal Impulse Toward Aggression.

Because Women Of Color Were More Likely To Be In The Paid Labor Force, They Were More Likely To Recognize Discrimination, So They Were Always Leading The Women's Movement.

In Sweden, Both Parents Take Care Of The Children.

Children Are Short People. Some You Like, Some You Don't.

Feminism Has Never Been About Getting A Job For One Woman. It's About Making Life More Fair For Women Everywhere. It's Not About A Piece Of The Existing Pie; There Are Too Many Of Us For That. It's About Baking A New Pie.

Perhaps Mccain Has Opposed Affirmative Action For So Long That He Doesn't Know It's About Inviting More People To Meet Standards, Not Lowering Them.

Diane Keaton Is Good For Women In And Of Herself. She's Smart And Funny And Real.

There's A Big Gap Between Public Opinion Polls And The Vote In Washington, In Congress.

The Constitution Did Not Mention Women When It Was First Written, And It Still Doesn't.