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 If you really want to be lonely, get married. Gloria Steinem married lonely want Work is valued by the social value of the worker. Gloria Steinem social-values reconstruction racism ... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be. Gloria Steinem groups honesty powerful Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive. Gloria Steinem girl dream morning ... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes. Gloria Steinem clothes sleep thinking ... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy. Gloria Steinem epidemics self fear ... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem. Gloria Steinem youth problem thinking We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you." Gloria Steinem media country people It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping. Gloria Steinem shopping wall style ... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other. Gloria Steinem fate powerful believe Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be. Gloria Steinem unique mother people I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. Gloria Steinem woods black-and-white children If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free. Gloria Steinem looks way thinking Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work. Gloria Steinem race class mean imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born. Gloria Steinem creating self believe Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated. Gloria Steinem hatred self needs The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule. Gloria Steinem golden treats needs You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen? Gloria Steinem presidential would-be needs I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm. Gloria Steinem microcosm trust society Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started. Gloria Steinem grateful too-much long
