Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM
Law and justice are not always the same.
GLORIA STEINEM
Gloria Steinem - Books and DVD's
Gloria Steinem Quotes:
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
GLORIA STEINEM
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
GLORIA STEINEM
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
GLORIA STEINEM
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
GLORIA STEINEM
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
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEM
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
GLORIA STEINEM
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
GLORIA STEINEM
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEM
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
GLORIA STEINEM
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
GLORIA STEINEM
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEM
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
GLORIA STEINEM
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.
GLORIA STEINEM
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.
GLORIA STEINEM
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM
Most women are one man away from welfare.
GLORIA STEINEM
Men should think twice before making widowhood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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?
GLORIA STEINEM
Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
GLORIA STEINEM
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
GLORIA STEINEM
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
GLORIA STEINEM
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM
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
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
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
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
GLORIA STEINEM
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
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
GLORIA STEINEM
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM
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
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
GLORIA STEINEM
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
GLORIA STEINEM
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
GLORIA STEINEM
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM
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.
GLORIA STEINEM
I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
GLORIA STEINEM
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM
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.
GLORIA STEINEM
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
GLORIA STEINEM
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
