Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 19

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Mad, Political

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

  Gloria Steinem

  Problem, Crime, Victim

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Media, People

  Source: www.esquire.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. How can we expect anybody else to?

  Gloria Steinem

  Effectiveness, Voting, Problem

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Men, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Race, Class

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Expression, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something in their childhood and they don't want to think they themselves were sexually abused as children or they are abusing their own children and they're sitting on a bench and they either can't admit it, won't admit it, depending on how deeply buried it is.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fun, Men, Ideas

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Smart, Political

  Source: collider.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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• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, College, Ideas

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

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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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• 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 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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