Gloria Steinem Quotes

   1934 -

US feminist  and  writer.  She  emerged  as  a  leading  figure  in  the women's movement in the 1960s,  and as  a campaigner  against the  Vietnam  War   and  racism.   She   co-founded  the  Women's Action Alliance (1970) and Ms magazine (1971).

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.

"Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49

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I remember her on the screen, huge as a colossus doll, mincing and whispering and simply hoping her way into total vulnerability.

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— Gloria Steinem from “Marilyn Monroe: The Woman who Died Too Soon” in Ms. magazine (August 1972); later published in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

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I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and the courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

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— "Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49

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

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— Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 228

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As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, "Oh no, that's women's work." Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

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— Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 367

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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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— Moving Beyond Words (1994), p. 270

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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

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— As quoted in Building a Life of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 225

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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

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— Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

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Writing...keeps me from believing everything I read.

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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

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— c.1970  Attributed, in various forms.

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Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

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— Moving Beyond Words (1994), Part 5.

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However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

Gloria Steinem
— "If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On?" in M.S. magazine (October-November 1980); later in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

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