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Gloria Steinem Quote: “Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it’s amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.”

401. “Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it’s amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father’s ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph.”

402. “I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father’s ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.”

403. “In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it’s reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.”

404. “A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it’s reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “This is a crucial job of being an organizer. You leave a dark basement and try to explain to people in the sunshine what it’s like to live down there. I’ve learned this is best done by bringing these different groups of people together. Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow then to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn’t cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.”

405. “This is a crucial job of being an organizer. You leave a dark basement and try to explain to people in the sunshine what it’s like to live down there. I’ve learned this is best done by bringing these different groups of people together. Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow then to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn’t cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “The media are not reality; reality is reality.”

406. “The media are not reality; reality is reality.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Writers – we’re a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.”

407. “Writers – we’re a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “I don’t know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.”

408. “I don’t know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “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.”

409. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “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.”

410. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?”

411. “So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women’s movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.”

412. “Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women’s movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.”

413. “When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Sadomasochiasm – which we know very well doesn’t exist in societies that don’t have child abuse – is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.”

414. “Sadomasochiasm – which we know very well doesn’t exist in societies that don’t have child abuse – is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”

415. “Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.”

416. “The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no – I believe in people – I.”

417. “When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no – I believe in people – I.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “I was the only “girl writer,” probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, “Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.”

418. “I was the only “girl writer,” probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, “Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “If time is relative, doing new things actually makes us feel we’ve lived a longer life.”

419. “If time is relative, doing new things actually makes us feel we’ve lived a longer life.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Altogether, if I’d been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.”

420. “Altogether, if I’d been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.”

421. “If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger – and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn’t usually mean including women.”

422. “Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger – and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn’t usually mean including women.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “It’s endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.”

423. “It’s endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you’re working your ass off, then you don’t want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.”

424. “No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you’re working your ass off, then you don’t want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.”

425. “You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “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.”

426. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?”

427. “What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “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.”

428. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.”

429. “We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “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.”

430. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.”

431. “The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “The problem for all women is we’re identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.”

432. “The problem for all women is we’re identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Language can’t solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.”

433. “Language can’t solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “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.”

434. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Close your eyes and pretend you are living with a woman – how would you divide the housework?”

435. “Close your eyes and pretend you are living with a woman – how would you divide the housework?”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn’t yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.”

436. “For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn’t yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.”

— Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem Quote: “I always say to audiences of men: “Cooperation beats submission. Trust me.””

437. “I always say to audiences of men: “Cooperation beats submission. Trust me.””

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.”

438. “It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.”

— Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem Quote: “I still don’t see reports in newspapers about white supremacists who are trying to establish an armed and separatist homeland in the rural Northwest and parts of Canada, yet.”

439. “I still don’t see reports in newspapers about white supremacists who are trying to establish an armed and separatist homeland in the rural Northwest and parts of Canada, yet.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.”

440. “Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.”

441. “When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “It’s the biggest economic influence in a woman’s life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.”

442. “It’s the biggest economic influence in a woman’s life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “Most books are bought by women.”

443. “Most books are bought by women.”

— Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem Quote: “It’s obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women’s movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.”

444. “It’s obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women’s movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.”

445. “It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “If you travel long enough, every story becomes a novel.”

446. “If you travel long enough, every story becomes a novel.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “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.”

447. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.”

448. “I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.”

449. “I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.”

— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Quote: “A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.”

450. “A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.”

— Gloria Steinem

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