Evil is obvious only in retrospect. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while. Gloria Steinem adaptable courses 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 women careers children In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one. Gloria Steinem choices healing order The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture. Gloria Steinem violence men culture I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30. Gloria Steinem busier expected The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. Gloria Steinem change inspiring inspirational The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights Gloria Steinem women struggle rights Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem inspiring positive inspirational If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it. Gloria Steinem inspiration real dream Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Gloria Steinem marriage work witty 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 law justice may I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life. Gloria Steinem librarian nancy boys If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? Gloria Steinem shoes change feet It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement. Gloria Steinem successful adventure thinking Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change. Gloria Steinem three people ideas Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. Gloria Steinem strong-women taken power There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible. Gloria Steinem economic-value simple giving You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external. Gloria Steinem unique pressure way No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life. Gloria Steinem religious names men Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race. Gloria Steinem show-me half race
