We have to know before we can act. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?) Gloria Steinem bodyuniqueyears There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. Gloria Steinem injusticebelieforder I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation. Gloria Steinem funeralmemorablegraduation Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch! Gloria Steinem patriarchcapitalismfeminist So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? Gloria Steinem barrierstakensex It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies). Gloria Steinem callingnamesjustice The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women. Gloria Steinem malesmenthinking The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. Gloria Steinem daughterexampleway Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever. Gloria Steinem foreverwritingpeople Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children. Gloria Steinem mothertwochildren I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time. Gloria Steinem more-timeknowswant If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. Gloria Steinem plotpoliticianmight 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. So we have to look at the reality and not romanticize it. We have to be clear that you have the right to sell your own body but nobody has the right to sell anybody else’s body. No one has that right. Gloria Steinem pimpbodyreality Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. Gloria Steinem politiciancoffeemakers I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road. Gloria Steinem issueswritingpeople Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison. Gloria Steinem differenthomedoors Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted. Gloria Steinem psychoanalysiswantedhome I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger. Gloria Steinem henry-kissingergirlfriendhumorous Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative. Gloria Steinem creativeknowinginspire More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country. Gloria Steinem democracymilitarycountry
