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Gloria Steinem
March 25, 1934 -
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

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

   

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

   

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

   

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

   

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

   

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

   

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

   

Most women are one man away from welfare.

   

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

   

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

   

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

   

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

   

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

   

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

   

Law and justice are not always the same.

   

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

   

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

   

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

   

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

   

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

   

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