Gloria Steinem Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

  Gloria Steinem

  Two, Choices, Feminist

• In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Healing, Order, Choices

• The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

  Gloria Steinem

  Freedom, Choices

  Gloria Steinem's Commencement Address at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. May 17, 1987.

• [Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, Choices, Yearning

• Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Confused, Choices

• ... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individual Choice, Racism, Choices

• I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Media, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

• I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, People, Choices

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

• You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Choices, Events

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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