Feminism is about friends and sisters and community. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From 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 equal-payreformfeminist A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. Gloria Steinem marriagejobssex I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise. Gloria Steinem dreamlongbelieve What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? Gloria Steinem raisedgenerationsviolence You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web. Gloria Steinem communicationtogetherwriting no one ever got radicalized by being grateful Gloria Steinem be-gratefulgrateful The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically. Gloria Steinem informationusetogether I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other. Gloria Steinem five-sensesageneeds Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival. Gloria Steinem survivalmenchildren No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you. Gloria Steinem matterwantheart If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts. Gloria Steinem masculine-and-femininetalkingmen We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk. Gloria Steinem want 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 stereotypepurityself The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important. Gloria Steinem funny-thingssmartwise If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence. Gloria Steinem twolyingpeople Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you. Gloria Steinem storieswant The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem. Gloria Steinem smellproblemideas I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough. Gloria Steinem madpoliticalthinking I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me. Gloria Steinem private-lifedifferencesi-can I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it. Gloria Steinem motherfatherchildren
