Games
All emojis
New
Quotes
Home
»
Quote
»
Gloria Steinem
Quotes
„Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the “Aha!” that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.“
„God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.“
„The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.“
„Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don’t have to put on an act. If I’m not feminine enough for someone, I don’t care, because femininity is different in everyone’s mind.“
„When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.“
„Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.“
„Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.“
„No wonder studies show that women’s intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.“
„I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be “unfeminine” so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go.“
„I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.“
„I was perversely delighted to see the Catholic Church and the Vatican go after nuns because I think they made a major error. People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it’s just too much.Their stance on abortion is also quite dishonest historically, because as the Jesuits (who always seem to be more honest historians of the Catholic Church) point out, the Church approved of and even regulated abortion well into the mid-1800s. The whole question of ensoulment was determined by the date of baptism. But after the Napoleonic Wars there weren’t enough soldiers anymore and the French were quite sophisticated about contraception. So Napoleon III prevailed on Pope Pius IX to declare abortion a mortal sin, in return for which Pope Pius IX got all the teaching positions in the French schools and support for the doctrine of papal infallibility. … My favorite line belongs to an old Irish woman taxi driver in Boston. Flo Kennedy and I were in the backseat talking about Flo’s book, Abortion Rap (1971), and the driver turned around and said, “Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” I wish I’d gotten her name so we could attribute it to her.“
„I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don’t express it, we loose faith in ourselves.“
„We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.“
„Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice“
„Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.“
„Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.“
„It’s said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.“
„I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and the courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.“
„Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.“
„A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.“
1
2
…
4
5
>