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Life Quotes by Gloria Steinem

42 Life quotes by Gloria Steinem

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I started out life as a writer who prefers silence over talking, Steinem says. She explains that social‑justice movements grow when people share personal stories in small groups. She also stresses that each person should take responsibility for their own life and celebrate authentic identities.

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I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.

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It's never to late for a happy childhood.

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Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

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Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

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Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

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She is a water bug on the surface of life.

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“The word 'still' has entered my life. People say to me, 'You're still traveling, you're still wearing blue jeans.”

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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

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I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being…

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Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the…

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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence…

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The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

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Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people…

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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and…

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No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I…

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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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Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and…

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Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and…

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During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this…

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Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of…

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I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as…

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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not…

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“We understand that being able to help dependent children find what they need can be a gift in itself. Why shouldn’t we…

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As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own…

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The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if…

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... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,…

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Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as…

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It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

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It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

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

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I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

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I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was…

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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not…

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Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable…

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“if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups…

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Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but…

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Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price…

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For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I…

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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…

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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.