The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women. Gloria Steinem funny-marriagementwo Hope is a very unruly emotion. Gloria Steinem badasshopeinspirational How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four. Gloria Steinem libertyracesex Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master. Gloria Steinem malesfemalegay That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them. Gloria Steinem fantasysupportclass Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?' Gloria Steinem careers I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top. Gloria Steinem bottomi-believebelieve When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group. Gloria Steinem can-notgroupssay-anything We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home. Gloria Steinem jobscountrychildren You are the leader you've been waiting for. Gloria Steinem leaderwaiting Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. Gloria Steinem diversityracemen Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. Gloria Steinem double-standardcarework We teach what we need to learn. Gloria Steinem teachinginspirationalneeds The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy. Gloria Steinem funmenideas The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. Gloria Steinem discomforti-caninspirational Male silence is not the same as listening Gloria Steinem malessilencelistening As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me. Gloria Steinem insecurewritingmorning Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. Gloria Steinem womenworkoutpower If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else. Gloria Steinem freedom-of-speechdemocracynumbers Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one. Gloria Steinem majorityconsciousnesswinning
