I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people. Gloria Steinem accomplish people needs I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit. Gloria Steinem media real people We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes. Gloria Steinem daughter ideas son Helping begins with listening. Gloria Steinem listening helping A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself. Gloria Steinem movement waiting people I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities. Gloria Steinem media people thinking The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might. Gloria Steinem matter might art Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home. Gloria Steinem husband home men 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 emotional men long We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood. Gloria Steinem beaten instinct childhood Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world. Gloria Steinem curiosity shining dark 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 responsible individual sin I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. Gloria Steinem brave courage moving Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas. Gloria Steinem dream doe ideas The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. Gloria Steinem resistance social firsts Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment Gloria Steinem girl views boys The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner. Gloria Steinem problem men thinking I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible. Gloria Steinem generations kids thinking The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. Gloria Steinem home men children A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Gloria Steinem feminism feminist reading
