Gloria Steinem Quotes

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  A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

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• Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

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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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• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

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• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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• 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.

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• Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

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• What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

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• We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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• We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

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• We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

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• Unless we include a job as part of every citizen’s right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else’s idea of what need is.

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• The only thing I can’t stand is discomfort.

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• The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

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

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• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

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• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

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• Most women’s magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

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• Most women are one man away from welfare.

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• Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.

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Gloria Steinem (63)

Birth:	25th March, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Feminist, Journalist, Writer

About

Gloria Marie Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She is an American feminist, journalist, writer, 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. She was a columnist for New York magazine, and a founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, she published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader. She has written several  books include: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions, Marilyn(with George Barris), Revolution from within, Moving Beyond Words, Wonder Woman, Doing Sixty and Seventy, and My Life on the Road.

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