Facts about Gloria Steinem

Occup.	Activist
From	USA
Born	March 25, 1934
Age	91 years

Summary

Gloria Steinem is a famous Activist from USA, he/she is 91 years old and still alive, born March 25, 1934.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious. Our collection contains 46 quotes who is written / told by Gloria, under the main topics: Money - Work.

46 Famous quotes by Gloria Steinem

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

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"If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society"

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"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry"

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"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people"

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"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning"

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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal"

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"We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth"

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"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space"

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"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters"

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"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back"

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"From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified"

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"A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means"

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"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate"

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"We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs"

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"Most women are one man away from welfare"

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"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us"

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"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after"

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"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing"

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"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one"

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"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual"

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"The only thing I can't stand is discomfort"

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"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary"

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"Logic is in the eye of the logician"

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"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before"

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"In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be"

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"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?"

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"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving"

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

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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form"

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"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else"

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"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career"

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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood"

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"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married"

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"Law and justice are not always the same"

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"If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare"

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"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach"

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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn"

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"Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality"

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"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous"

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"Hope is a very unruly emotion"

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

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"I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine"

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"For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable"

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"Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men"

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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is"

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