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Women Quotes by Gloria Steinem

76 Women quotes by Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem points out that art has been defined by men, labeling women's work as mere crafts. She notes that society often treats men's concerns as more important than women's. She also observes that many women grow more radical as they age, losing power and pushing back against the status quo.

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Most women are one man away from welfare.

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Most books are bought by women.

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Women's progress has been a collective effort.

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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

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Some women and men seem to need each other.

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In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

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God knows (She knows) that women try.

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Women are liked better when they lose.

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Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

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The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

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The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

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In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

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In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

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Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.

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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

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Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever…

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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture.…

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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So…

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Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,…

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Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career.…

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“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can…

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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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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside…

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I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as…

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If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children -…

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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone…

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'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be…

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“In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an…

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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

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Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

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What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

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Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls…

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Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

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If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

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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…

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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.