Pedestal Quote by Gloria Steinem Download Open image “A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.” — Gloria Steinem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pedestal Prison Space
“They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls. — Suki Kim Copy Share Image
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Once I found a sticky-note that said someone was placed on a "petal stool". If you ask me, that sounds a lot better than… — Shane Hinton Copy Share Image
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have always put you in pedestal, even without you noticing that I am the base you're stepping in to keep the pedestal firmly… — Elian Martinez Copy Share Image
“A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place your freedom of choice can… — Ryan Holiday 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
Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there. — Betty Grable Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
