Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem I do not like to write - I like to have written. Gloria Steinem creative-writingwrittenwriting Most women are one man away from welfare. Gloria Steinem equalityfeministmen We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it. Gloria Steinem imaginemoving Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. Gloria Steinem womenfeministmemorable Logic is in the eye of the logician. Gloria Steinem powerfulwittyphilosophy Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage Gloria Steinem gamblinginstinctsatisfied A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something in their childhood and they don't want to think they themselves were sexually abused as children or they are abusing their own children and they're sitting on a bench and they either can't admit it, won't admit it, depending on how deeply buried it is. Gloria Steinem lawchildrenthinking Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. Gloria Steinem shouldwritingfeels It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem atheistjobsbelieve Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. Gloria Steinem gamblingmarriagemen When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. Gloria Steinem genderrolesboys The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government. Gloria Steinem familybelievesex My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition. Gloria Steinem pridemotherfather By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. Gloria Steinem believechildrenyears The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty. Gloria Steinem girlcleverthinking More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it. Gloria Steinem homejobsmen America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. Gloria Steinem cupcakesamericapeople We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. Gloria Steinem masculinityfemininewealth Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. Gloria Steinem demandbodyinspiring If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year. Gloria Steinem holocaustsexyears
