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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
American Activist
Born: Mar 25, 1934
Because Men People Woman Women You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Elizabeth Cady Stanton Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. Gloria Steinem
Women Ego Value Guilt Men Say Favor Writers Exchange Idea Comedians Male Shock May Want Psychologists Places Fantasy Based
There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. Gloria Steinem
World Year Lost Every Simply Because Female Six Lives Million
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. Gloria Steinem
Time Women Right-Wing Most Learn Same May Same Time Republicans Appeal
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. Gloria Steinem
Walk Care About Guys Like Talk Sing Issues Just Jam Pearl Pearl Jam
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. Gloria Steinem
Confidence Women Inferiority More Female Lot Us Need
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. Gloria Steinem
Strength You Fire Group Unless Hierarchy Weaknesses Emergency Allowing Like Learned Without Surgery Repeating Brain Brain Surgery Person May Necessary Strengths Damaging
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. Gloria Steinem
Myself Freelance Able Support Always Been Person
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. Gloria Steinem
Woman Path Men Power Before Think Hood Only Making Should Twice Widow
Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. Gloria Steinem
Ability Boss Obviously Because Denied Person Should Who
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. Gloria Steinem
People Enormous Starving America Middle Millions
Law and justice are not always the same. Gloria Steinem
Justice Law Always Same
The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. Gloria Steinem
Government Internet Power Action Military Twitter Corporate Email Danger Online Real Go Sending Centers While Confusing Right
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. Gloria Steinem
God Religion Me Class Trust Monotheism Guess Ruling Ruling Class Like Look Makes Any Pagan
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. Gloria Steinem
Marriage Women Men Same Thing Worrying Find Some About Combining Most Were Campus Same Where Children Aspect Many Thing Career
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. Gloria Steinem
Writing Else Something Something Else Only Feel Doing The Only Thing Should Thing
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. Gloria Steinem
Space Prison Pedestal Small Any Confined Much
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free. Gloria Steinem
Love You Fear Laughter Free Long Enough Someone Feel Make Isolated Dependent Even Compel
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. Gloria Steinem
You Will Our Statistic Only Fact Wrong Well Make Make Up Because Narrative Go Hear Brains Up Very May Story Which Organized
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. Gloria Steinem
Women Seriously Men Way General More Only Taken Affects Than Anything
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. Gloria Steinem
Balance Women Some About Most Continent Were Cultures Chiefs American Native Native American Them Societies
I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. Gloria Steinem
Living Make Camera Front Lucky
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. Gloria Steinem
Good Experience Training Positions Secretarial Jobs Would Able Bosses Take Count Over Like Human Places Human Experience Need
What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. Gloria Steinem
You Yourself Wonderful Lose About Something More More Or Less Another Person Sustain Happens Create Less Keep Need
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. Gloria Steinem
Work Political Political Power Power Own Else Someone Only Feminist Question Goes Whether
The surest way to be alone is to get married. Gloria Steinem
Alone Way Married Surest Surest Way Get Get Married
I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. Gloria Steinem
Hope Live Much
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