Gloria Steinem Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong Women, Taken, Power

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.577, Open Road Media

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Workout, Women, Power

• Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Power, Men

• ... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Honesty, Powerful, Groups

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.14, Open Road Media

• ... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Believe, Fate

  Gloria Steinem (2014). “Doing Sixty & Seventy”, p.30, Open Road Media

• the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Men, Order

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.289, Open Road Media

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