Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

American feminist writer

Lived from: 1934 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 march 1934

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  • Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
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  • Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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  • I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
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  • I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
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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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  • I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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  • I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
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  • I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.
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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.
    Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2012) 887
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  • If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
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  • If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.
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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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  • If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
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  • If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
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  • If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
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  • In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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  • It's easier to blame the person with less power.
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