Top 48 Feminism Gloria Steinem Quotes
#1. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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#2. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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#3. Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.
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#4. Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste
and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.
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#5. In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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#6. When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.
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#7. Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women's movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.
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#9. Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.
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#10. Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.
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#11. If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.
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#12. The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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#13. It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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#14. As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
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#15. There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
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#16. One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
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#17. Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.
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#18. Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.
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#20. After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
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#21. The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.
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#22. The accusation that feminism is bad for the family leads to understanding that it's bad for the patriarchal variety, but good for democratic families that are the basis of democracy.
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#23. A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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#24. My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.
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#25. Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.
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#26. Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
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#28. Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.
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#29. A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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#30. Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
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#31. As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.
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#32. In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.
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#33. Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
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#34. Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
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#35. I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
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#36. You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules p.79
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#37. When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
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#38. Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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#39. It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.
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#40. I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.
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#41. Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
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#43. Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke ... She will need her sisterhood.
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#44. Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.
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#45. The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).
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#46. As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.
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#47. Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.
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