Gloria Steinem Quotes - Page 20

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• I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Fighting, Worry

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

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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 for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Justice, People

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

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• I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pimp, Free Will, Mets

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.

  Gloria Steinem

  Taken, Way, Playboy

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

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• In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Men, Important

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Cooperation, Trust Me

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Pronouns, Wells

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, People, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Men, Circles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.

  Gloria Steinem

  Agreement, Humanity, News

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• There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.

  Gloria Steinem

  Differences, Support, President

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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.

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• It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It's not just getting a job for one woman, it's making life better for all women.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, White, House

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight. They let you know who the better debater is but they don't really tell you about the issue. It's all heat, but no light.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Issues, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, People, Revolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Men, Equal Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self, Wings, Stereotype

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Sin, Individual

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Men, Different

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, People, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

  Gloria Steinem

  Growing Up, Children, Night

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

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• We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Suffering, Important

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.

  Gloria Steinem

  Land, Two, Giving

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

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• I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Masculine And Feminine, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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