Gloria Steinem quotes are about her role as a feminist and how she views many issues in the world today. She joins other female activists like Angela Davis and Megan Rapinoe who push for equal rights for women. She also talks about her many travels, something she loves to do.
Gloria Steinem is an American political social activist, feminist and journalist. She is best known for her role in pushing the feminist movement in the 1960/70s. She has written books on the subject and co-founded Ms.magazine. Maya Angelou and Steinem were part of the sisterhood and were good friends. Below are a number of her quotes.
Quote #1 “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” |
Quote #2 “Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.” |
Quote #3 “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” |
Quote #4 “Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.” |
Quote #5 “Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” |
Quote #6 “We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” |
Quote #7 “Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.” |
Quote #8 “I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” |
Quote #9 “Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” |
Quote #10 “A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.” |
Quote #11 “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.” |
Quote #12 “Laughter is a rescue.” |
Quote #13 “If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?” |
Quote #14 “A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.” |
Quote #15 “Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.” |
Quote #16 “As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.” |
Quote #17 “Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.” |
Quote #18 “I do not like to write - I like to have written.” |
Quote #19 “Rich People plan for three generations |
Quote #20 “When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” |
Quote #21 “America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.” |
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Quote #23 “Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.” |
Quote #24 “We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.” |
Quote #25 “Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” |
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Quote #27 “Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” |
Quote #28 “Each others' lives are our best textbooks.” |
Quote #29 “Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.” |
Quote #30 “I believe . . . that if our country ever comes into trial again, young men will spring up equal to the occasion, and if one fails, there will be another to take his place.” |
Quote #31 “The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.” |
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Quote #33 “No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” |
Quote #34 “Swiftboating enters the English language as a verb that means attacking strength instead of weakness. In feminist and other social justice contexts, this has long been called trashing, attacking leaders for daring to write, speak, or lead at all. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad. |
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Quote #36 “Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.” |
Quote #37 “Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” |
Quote #38 “Always ask the turtle.” |
Quote #39 “no one ever got radicalized by being grateful” |
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Quote #41 “I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.” |
Quote #42 “Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.” |
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Quote #44 “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” |
Quote #45 “When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.” |
Quote #46 “It’s said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.” |
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Gloria Steinem quotes reflect the thoughts of many women in the world today. She still continues to share her views by giving lectures all over the world. I hope that something she has said proves of great benefit and value and inspires us all to live better lives.