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United States feminist (born in 1934)

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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Evil is obvious only in retrospect. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
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. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Logic is in the eye of the logician. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. – Gloria SteinemRate it:
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. – Gloria SteinemRate it:

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

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. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

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

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

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Feminists can wear anything they f**** want, they should be able to walk down the street nude and be safe. – Gloria Steinem**	Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News
When you're young, you're thinking, 'Where are the boys?' The boys are with Bernie. – Gloria Steinem	Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics
They're going to get more activist as they get older, and when you're young, you're thinking, 'Where are the boys?' The boys are with Bernie. – Gloria Steinem	Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics
We can learn on paper and on screen, but the ability to understand, not just learn, happens when we are together and able to empathize. – Gloria Steinem	Found on CNN 3 years ago World
We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible. – Gloria Steinem	Found on CNN 3 years ago World
I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been the case that citizenry -- women and men -- can make progress when it is not possible for the officials to be able to meet at that moment in time. – Gloria Steinem	Found on CNN 3 years ago World
Ronald Reagan stood outside the Berlin Wall and said: 'Take down this wall', we are saying: 'Take down this isolation.'. – Gloria Steinem	Found on Reuters 3 years ago World
It's hard to imagine any more physical symbol of the insanity of dividing human beings. – Gloria Steinem	Found on FOX News 3 years ago World
It's hard to imagine any more physical symbol of the insanity of dividing human beings, to me, to walk across it has huge, huge, huge importance. – Gloria Steinem	Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

Feminists can wear anything they f****** want, they should be able to walk down the street nude and be safe.

– Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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