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Whenever one person stands up and says, "Wait a minute, this is wrong," it helps other people do the same.
— Gloria Steinem
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.
— Gloria Steinem
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
— Gloria Steinem
Always look at what people do, not who they are.
— Gloria Steinem
The power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls
— Gloria Steinem
Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.
— Gloria Steinem
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
— Gloria Steinem
I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
— Gloria Steinem
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
— Gloria Steinem
She didn't put her finger to the wind; she became the wind.
— Gloria Steinem
This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
— Gloria Steinem
Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
— Gloria Steinem
One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
— Gloria Steinem
The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.
— Gloria Steinem
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.
— Gloria Steinem
Between what is and what could be?
— Gloria Steinem
Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair - and it's not there.
— Gloria Steinem
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
— Gloria Steinem
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.
— Gloria Steinem
We are so different, yet so much the same.
— Gloria Steinem
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
— Gloria Steinem
Each others' lives are our best textbooks.
— Gloria Steinem
When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
— Gloria Steinem
Rhyming in itself is magic.
— Gloria Steinem
Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.
— Gloria Steinem
The personal is political. When
— Gloria Steinem
To be just, a law has to be flexible.
— Gloria Steinem
Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
— Gloria Steinem
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
— Gloria Steinem
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
— Gloria Steinem
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
— Gloria Steinem
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
— Gloria Steinem
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
— Gloria Steinem
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
— Gloria Steinem
If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.
— Gloria Steinem
We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
— Gloria Steinem
When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
— Gloria Steinem
Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.
— Gloria Steinem
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
— Gloria Steinem
Close your eyes and pretend you are living with a woman - how would you divide the housework?
— Gloria Steinem
It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.
— Gloria Steinem
I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
— Gloria Steinem
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
— Gloria Steinem
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
— Gloria Steinem
This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet
— Gloria Steinem
Marriage was always the happening end, not the beginning.
— Gloria Steinem
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
— Gloria Steinem
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.
— Gloria Steinem
Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.
— Gloria Steinem
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.
— Gloria Steinem
Helping begins with listening.
— Gloria Steinem
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
— Gloria Steinem
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
— Gloria Steinem
IF EVERYONE HAS A full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven't been.
— Gloria Steinem
the clearest view is always from the bottom. Kennedy
— Gloria Steinem
The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
— Gloria Steinem
More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.
— Gloria Steinem
if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also
— Gloria Steinem
II worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
— Vita Sackville-West
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
— Gloria Steinem
Not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.
— Gloria Steinem
We have become the men we wanted to marry.
— Gloria Steinem
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
— Gloria Steinem
For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.
— Gloria Steinem
I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.
— Gloria Steinem
He let in the light.
— Gloria Steinem
Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
— Gloria Steinem
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
— Gloria Steinem
As Dr. King once said, Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
— Gloria Steinem
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
— Gloria Steinem
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
— Gloria Steinem
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
— Gloria Steinem
Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously For its Self
— Gloria Steinem
There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.
— Gloria Steinem
Inner space is the real frontier.
— Gloria Steinem
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
— Gloria Steinem
In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed.
— Gloria Steinem
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
— Gloria Steinem
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
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
— Gloria Steinem
Women still average much less in earnings over a lifetime than men do and have to pay back the same college debt.
— Gloria Steinem