114 Gloria Steinem Quotes That Will Inspire Generations Of Feminists
Gloria Steinem is a celebrated American social political activist, feminist, and journalist. She gained prominence in the late 1960s and the early 1970s as a spokeswoman and leader for the American feminist movement. She hogged the limelight after publishing an article titled “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation.” She is also recognized as a media spokeswoman on issues of equality, a lecturer and an organizer. We have collected some quotes and sayings by Gloria Steinem which have been excerpted from her writings, books, statements, thoughts, public utterances, interviews, speeches, and lectures. Zoom through motivational and noteworthy quotes and thoughts by Gloria Steinem on mind, body, emotions, dream, believe, heartbreaks, past, impact, women, ambition, equality, change, healing, feminist etc.
The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
Women's progress has been a collective effort.
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
Liberation does not come from outside.
I can say whatever it is that I feel.
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
