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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
— Gloria Steinem
It was a constitutional convention for the female half of the country. After all, we had been excluded from the first one.
— Gloria Steinem
I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
— Gloria Steinem
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
— Gloria Steinem
There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.
— Gloria Steinem
It's as if attentivepeople create a magnetic force field for stor-
ies the tellers themselves didn't know they
had within them. — Gloria Steinem
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
— Gloria Steinem
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
— 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
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
— Gloria Steinem
It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
— Gloria Steinem
It's easier to blame the person with less power.
— Gloria Steinem
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
— Gloria Steinem
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— Gloria Steinem
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
— Gloria Steinem
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.
— 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
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
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
— Gloria Steinem
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
— Gloria Steinem
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.
— Gloria Steinem
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!
— Gloria Steinem
Each others' lives are our best textbooks.
— Gloria Steinem
Maybe U.S. policy makers should talk to taxi drivers.
— Gloria Steinem
Women's progress has been a collective effort.
— 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
When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For
— Gloria Steinem
Rhyming in itself is magic.
— Gloria Steinem
I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions.
— Gloria Steinem
The personal is political. When
— Gloria Steinem
It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
— Gloria Steinem
Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each
— Gloria Steinem
It's never to late for a happy childhood.
— Gloria Steinem
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
— Gloria Steinem
The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
— Gloria Steinem
There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
— Gloria Steinem
It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
— Gloria Steinem
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.
— Gloria Steinem
No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.
— Gloria Steinem
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
Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
— Gloria Steinem
Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
— Gloria Steinem
Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.
— Gloria Steinem
The model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then,
— Gloria Steinem
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
— Gloria Steinem
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
— Gloria Steinem
The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
— Gloria Steinem
Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
— Gloria Steinem
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
— Gloria Steinem
The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
— Gloria Steinem
There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
— 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
Marriage was always the happening end, not the beginning.
— 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
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
When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.
— Gloria Steinem
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
— Gloria Steinem
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
— Gloria Steinem
There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.
— Gloria Steinem
You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.
— Gloria Steinem
When pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
— Gloria Steinem
It's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.
— Gloria Steinem
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
— Gloria Steinem
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster ... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for.
— Gloria Steinem
There's no shortage of great young activists.
— Gloria Steinem
You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.
— Gloria Steinem
It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.
— Gloria Steinem
I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
— Gloria Steinem
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
— Gloria Steinem