Gloria Steinem Quotes

• Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

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• I’ve finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.

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• This is what forty looks like. We’ve been lying so long who would know?

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• Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

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

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• Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute, this is wrong,’ it helps other people to do the same.

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• Men should think twice before making widowhood women’s only path to power.

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

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

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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’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

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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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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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