When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth." Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature. Gloria Steinem pronouns wells circles Behave like everything you do matters. Gloria Steinem behave matter I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long. Gloria Steinem generations men long In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering. Gloria Steinem productive-work pain husband What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of." Gloria Steinem childhood down-and energy Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it. Gloria Steinem use ordinary worry Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe. Gloria Steinem fighting successful justice An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process. Gloria Steinem lifelong process I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know. Gloria Steinem terrible writing needs If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not. Gloria Steinem isolated ifs feels Thank you for all your good and beautiful work. Gloria Steinem beautiful I don't like writing. I like having written. Gloria Steinem written writing What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married. Gloria Steinem vices president talking Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. Gloria Steinem planning-ahead goal class I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland. Gloria Steinem equal-pay country thinking I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. Gloria Steinem magazines missing People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing. Gloria Steinem kings mean thinking Liberation does not come from outside. Gloria Steinem liberation doe In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training. Gloria Steinem training work-out art From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. Gloria Steinem violence may add
