Gloria Steinem Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Money, Powerful

• The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, Matter, Want

• A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

  Gloria Steinem

  Suicide, Economic Value, Growth

  Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

• Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Numbers, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.364, Open Road Media

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Social Values, Racism, Reconstruction

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.374, Open Road Media

• Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, Worry Less, Trying

  "Gloria Steinem on why she’s going to North Korea". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. May 1, 2015.

• ... 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

• In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pain, Husband, Productive Work

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.392, Open Road Media

• There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

  Gloria Steinem

  Simple, Economic Value, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Men, Equal Pay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.

  Gloria Steinem

  Worry, Should, Companion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dream, Kindness, Ambition

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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