"A pedestal is as much a prison as…" — Gloria Steinem

"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space."

— Gloria Steinem

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298 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem has 298 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air…
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans,…
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies…
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
She is a water bug on the surface of life.
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that…
It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a…

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