Quotes from Gloria Steinem

It was a game, and life was the playing field.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. Yet one of the strongest, most thoughtful feminists I know still hides in one-piece bathing suits to conceal her two Cesarean scars. And one of the most hypocritical feminists I know (that is, one who loves feminism but dislikes women) had plastic surgery to remove the tiny scar that gave her face character.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Every woman knows there is a big difference between help that is designed to keep you dependent, and help that is designed to make you independent.

In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren't written.

All I knew was that my father enjoyed my company, asked my opinion, and treated me better than he treated himself. What more could any child want?

Whether by dowry murders in India, honor killings in Egypt, or domestic violence in the United States, records show that women are most likely to be beaten or killed at home and by men they know. Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for woman than the road. Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self willed journey-and to be welcomed when she comes home.

They knew that in the 1970s the Indian Health Service of the U.S. government admitted that thousands of Native women had been sterilized without their informed consent. Some called it a long-term strategy for taking over Indian lands, and others said it was the same racism that had sterilized black women in the South.

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What we didn't talk about were the male staffers who rated our looks, brushed against us in close quarters, and became hazards to be navigated. Our presence was the problem; their behavior was inevitable. Avoiding them while keeping their egos intact was just part of our job.

If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.

It's even possible that Marilyn was found still breathing, rushed to Santa Monica Hospital by ambulance in an effort to save her, and returned to her own bed only after she was dead. There is some testimony to this on the part of ambulance drivers from a company that had transported Marilyn before. Anthony Summers reports the possibility that her unsuccessful rescuers could have been Robert Kennedy, or Peter Lawford, or both, responding in alarm to a last slurred phone call from Marilyn.

We learn where we know the least.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel... Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. 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.

I thought, When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

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.

In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning—and more will.

mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not.

Women can't have it all if that means doing it all.

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 to. When

Marilyn supplied sex so that she would be allowed to work, but not so that she wouldn't have to work.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. Scholarly language may be so theoretical that it obscures the source of feminism in women's lived experience.