Gloria Steinem Quotes
It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.
I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.
People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.
Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.
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.
Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.
As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.
Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning
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.
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.
Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.
Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.
As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.
Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.
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.
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.
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
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.
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.
One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.
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.
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.
You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79
Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.
In Indian Country, ” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.
I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.
I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.
Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.
Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.
In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.