Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. Gloria Steinem More Quotes by Gloria Steinem More Quotes From Gloria Steinem Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us. Gloria Steinem revenge children people A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying. Gloria Steinem blame rejection way Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality. Gloria Steinem aggression-and-violence heart sex The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence. Gloria Steinem silence expectations men Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved. Gloria Steinem violence body order Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves. Gloria Steinem self-confidence teenager ghetto I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury. Gloria Steinem factories luxury self-esteem Logic has nothing to do with oppression. Gloria Steinem oppression logic The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters). Gloria Steinem feminism marriage husband Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man. Gloria Steinem marriage differences men Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it. Gloria Steinem worst suffering heart The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education. Gloria Steinem abortion believe sex A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts. Gloria Steinem boss persons experts Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself. Gloria Steinem self love mean God knows (She knows) that women try. Gloria Steinem god-knows god trying Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too. Gloria Steinem equal-pay girl men I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends. Gloria Steinem crazy mother children We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. Gloria Steinem self-education education needs There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness. Gloria Steinem different dresses men Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets. Gloria Steinem faces home long
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