If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves. Gloria Steinem waiting men mean Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in. Gloria Steinem men-and-women husband men If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. Gloria Steinem brag men long It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It's not just getting a job for one woman, it's making life better for all women. Gloria Steinem white house jobs We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible. Gloria Steinem voyages impossible peace She is a water bug on the surface of life. Gloria Steinem bugs sarcastic water Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. Gloria Steinem oppression logic self I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been the case that citizenry -- women and men -- can make progress when it is not possible for the officials to be able to meet at that moment in time. Gloria Steinem spiritual men peace They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities. Gloria Steinem circles men children Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self. Gloria Steinem lying art thinking Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. Gloria Steinem justice numbers believe It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it. Gloria Steinem circles political witty More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch. Gloria Steinem men kids children ... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there. Gloria Steinem six-months people art Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. Gloria Steinem support risk love If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance. Gloria Steinem voice doe giving When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction. Gloria Steinem gender males female It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life. Gloria Steinem librarian internals saved Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers. Gloria Steinem invisible suffering people We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature. Gloria Steinem pronouns wells circles
