Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 19

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• I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fun, Hate, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

  Gloria Steinem

  Needs, Want, Tiny

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wise, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.

  Gloria Steinem

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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

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• I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.

  Gloria Steinem

  Beautiful, Girl, People

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

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• The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Want, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Communication, Caring

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

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• The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Sex, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A million times better than the phone and the mimeograph! Also much better than TV, which is one-way and passive.

  Gloria Steinem

  Phones, Information, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Textbooks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

  Gloria Steinem

  Unique, Top Down, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Support, Fantasy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, Giving, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

  Gloria Steinem

  Falling In Love, Fall, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wise, Smart, Funny Things

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Majority, Public Opinion, Gaps

  Source: collider.com

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• One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.

  Gloria Steinem

  Effectiveness, Voting, Problem

  "Interview with Gloria Steinem". muse.jhu.edu. 2003.

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• Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

  Gloria Steinem

  Party, People, Vote

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

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• Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Dream, Morning

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

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• I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, Knowing, Important

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

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• I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ability, Contact, Knows

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

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• Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Wish, Retrospect

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

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• I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wall, Childhood, Understanding

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

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• We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pimp, Survivor, Victim

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

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