We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. Gloria Steinem equal-pay reform feminist A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. Gloria Steinem marriage jobs sex I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise. Gloria Steinem dream long believe What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? Gloria Steinem raised generations violence You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web. Gloria Steinem communication together writing no one ever got radicalized by being grateful Gloria Steinem be-grateful grateful The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically. Gloria Steinem information use together I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other. Gloria Steinem five-senses age needs Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival. Gloria Steinem survival men children No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you. Gloria Steinem matter want heart If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts. Gloria Steinem masculine-and-feminine talking men We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk. Gloria Steinem want We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money. Gloria Steinem stereotype purity self The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important. Gloria Steinem funny-things smart wise If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence. Gloria Steinem two lying people Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you. Gloria Steinem stories want The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem. Gloria Steinem smell problem ideas I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough. Gloria Steinem mad political thinking I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me. Gloria Steinem private-life differences i-can I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it. Gloria Steinem mother father children
