Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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.
Gloria Steinem— 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)
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.
Gloria Steinem— "Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Gloria Steinem— Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 228
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.
Gloria Steinem— Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 367
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— Moving Beyond Words (1994), p. 270
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
Gloria Steinem— As quoted in Building a Life of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 225
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem— Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
Writing...keeps me from believing everything I read.
Gloria Steinem
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem— c.1970 Attributed, in various forms.
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
Gloria Steinem— Moving Beyond Words (1994), Part 5.
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)
