Gloria Steinem Quotes

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Gloria Steinem

Profession : Activist

Birth : March 25, 1934

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Gloria Steinem

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

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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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The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

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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.

Gloria Steinem

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

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Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

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

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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Gloria Steinem

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.

Gloria Steinem

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Gloria Steinem

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Gloria Steinem