1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem


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    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.

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    Altogether, I can’t imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

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    We all have good instincts unless they’re beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

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    Thanks to her, I began to learn about the Trickster, a common figure in Native myhtologies, a boundary crosser who can go anywhere. Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hieractchical pile and surivive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a break of boundaries who makes us laugh- and laughter lets the sacred it.

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    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.

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    I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn’t help unless the majority is active and votes – but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

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    We’ll only really know we’ve succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn’t have to be extraordinary. That’s the point!

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    Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one’s self.

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