What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions. Gloria Steinem feminineimportantthinking No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political. Gloria Steinem politicalviolenceuse It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement. Gloria Steinem strong-womenmeanthinking A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide. Gloria Steinem economic-valuegrowthsuicide Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and until women are as active outside the home as men are, we won't have democratic families, and therefore we won't have democracy, and we will continue this hierarchical notion of life. Gloria Steinem homemenchildren It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures. Gloria Steinem agejoydiscovery I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end. Gloria Steinem empathyviolencemean Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health. Gloria Steinem eating-disorderindividualityspecial Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. Gloria Steinem controlling-womensexisminevitable Democracy is mob rule with income taxes. Gloria Steinem mob-ruleincomedemocracy Some women and men seem to need each other. Gloria Steinem lovemenneeds Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement. Gloria Steinem super-womansuperwomanmovement Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going. Gloria Steinem gratitudecarepast The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech. Gloria Steinem freedom-of-speechrightsculture For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. Gloria Steinem newsreadingbook It's never to late for a happy childhood. Gloria Steinem childhoodlatelife Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force. Gloria Steinem seriousself-esteemblessing People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. Gloria Steinem waitingworkpeople We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country. Gloria Steinem violencecountryneeds 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
