If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong. Gloria Steinem strongmeanchildren If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do. Gloria Steinem love-youtryingpeople It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge. Gloria Steinem distancesuccessfulyears I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make. Gloria Steinem realbelievepeople We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles. Gloria Steinem crazyanimaltalking Writing is always harder than talking. Gloria Steinem harderwritingtalking It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually. Gloria Steinem effortinterestingthinking I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity. Gloria Steinem feelingspeoplethinking I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault. Gloria Steinem motherlongthinking Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do. Gloria Steinem carecrazylittles The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together. Gloria Steinem masculine-and-femininecirclesideas The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs. Gloria Steinem daughtermotherchildren The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black. Gloria Steinem whiteamericathinking Everyone is unique and each experience is different. Gloria Steinem differentunique I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics. Gloria Steinem economicsviolencefirsts [Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person. Gloria Steinem yearningchoicesideas You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child. Gloria Steinem masculinelastschildren I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be. Gloria Steinem never-quitkindthinking There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in every holster. Make America a man again." That sums up his attitudes: pro-military, anti-equality, pro-rich, anti-poor. Gloria Steinem militaryhomeattitude There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers. Gloria Steinem uniquemotherfather
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