Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's more variation among human groups than between human groups. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
