Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win. Gloria Steinem politics winning want it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography. Gloria Steinem pornography sex In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love. Gloria Steinem imbalance littles sex I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare. Gloria Steinem pimp free-will mets The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality. Gloria Steinem acceptance sex ideas There's more variation among human groups than between human groups. Gloria Steinem variation groups humans For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness. Gloria Steinem gossip girl history I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin. Gloria Steinem support democracy years The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute. Gloria Steinem air rivers water we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud Gloria Steinem proud parent Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. Gloria Steinem unhappy-family mysterious unhappy Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all. Gloria Steinem looks thinking Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy. Gloria Steinem bases democracy self-esteem In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world. Gloria Steinem twenties mother years I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them. Gloria Steinem names people thinking Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten. Gloria Steinem justice teacher school A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. Gloria Steinem my-generation generations mother Each others' lives are our best textbooks. Gloria Steinem textbooks Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction. Gloria Steinem numbers order mean When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. Gloria Steinem mourning imagination past
