Famous quotes by Activists

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Logic is in the eye of the logician"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"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"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"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"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"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"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"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"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Hope is a very unruly emotion"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"The patient decides when it's best to go"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

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