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Thinking Quotes by Gloria Steinem

55 Thinking quotes by Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem points out how groups can internalize subordination and think it’s natural. She talks about organizing solutions for survival and moving forward, and she urges people to like how they look, not just how they think they look themselves.

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There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

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I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

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Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

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I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

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I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'

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... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

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We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing…

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I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to…

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I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only…

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The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them.…

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What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for…

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I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not…

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Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn…

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When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become…

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The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of…

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I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent…

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I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because…

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If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens…

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The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or…

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I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight.…

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We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where…

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If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask…

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It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There…

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I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever…

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I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of…

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Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and…

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Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

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I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

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I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

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I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which…

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I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used…

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... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him…

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It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not…

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If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would…

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It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It…

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The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it -…

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I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be…

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People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so…

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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did…

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…

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…

I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word…

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual…

Behave like everything you do matters.

“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.”

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.

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls…

Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.