Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends. Gloria Steinem differencesracesex I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life. Gloria Steinem takenresponsibilitygiving If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. Gloria Steinem malesteachingmen The moment we find the reason behind an emotion the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free. Gloria Steinem wallanswersmemories Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. Gloria Steinem everyday-objectsexpressionart Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style. Gloria Steinem workhomemen Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are. Gloria Steinem individualsinpeople Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life. Gloria Steinem gayhumorousreal I can't mate in captivity. Gloria Steinem matescaptivitysex Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. Gloria Steinem motherlosswar One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to? Gloria Steinem effectivenessvotingproblem Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. Gloria Steinem pornographydominance What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them? Gloria Steinem ifshappenschildren anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses. Gloria Steinem blackracismnurse The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money. Gloria Steinem stereotypeselfwings There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance. Gloria Steinem meanyearsideas Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing. Gloria Steinem feminismrevolution A good friendship is a conversation that never ends. Gloria Steinem good-friendconversationfriendship I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising. Gloria Steinem feministimportantthinking As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind. Gloria Steinem anxietyindividualityopposites
