Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
Gloria Steinem
"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."
Gloria Steinem
"Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!"
Gloria Steinem
"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
"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
Gloria Steinem
"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space."
Gloria Steinem
"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
Gloria Steinem
"Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other."
Gloria Steinem
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Gloria Steinem
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
Gloria Steinem
"We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know."
Gloria Steinem
"For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening."
Gloria Steinem
"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters."
Gloria Steinem
"Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it."
Gloria Steinem
"For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening."
Gloria Steinem
"The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn."
Gloria Steinem
"Hope is a very unruly emotion."
Gloria Steinem
"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
Gloria Steinem
"Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage."
Gloria Steinem
"We are becoming the men we wanted to marry"
Gloria Steinem
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