Gloria Steinem
"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."
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"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."
"أتساءل أحيانًا إن كنت أتقاطع مع دروب أبي الشبحية، فنلج المدن ذاتها أو المطاعم الجانبية، أو شرائط الطرق السريعة السوداء التي تتلألأ في مطر الليل. كأننا صورتان في لقطة زمنية متسلسلة."
Gloria Steinem
"In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world."
"عند التأمل، لعلّ السبب الأكبر في أن أمي رُعيت ولم تُعانَ طوال عقدين من الزمن، كان في غاية البساطة: لم يكن العالم بحاجة ماسة إلى فاعليتها."
Gloria Steinem
"This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism."
"ليس هذا مجرد إصلاح، بل هو ثورة حقيقية. لقد كان الجنس والعرق، لأنهما يمثلان فوارق ظاهرة ويسيرة التمييز، الوسيلتين الأساسيتين لتقسيم البشر إلى فئات متفوقة وأخرى دونية، وإلى الأيدي العاملة الرخيصة التي ما زال هذا النظام يرتكز عليها. إننا نتحدث عن مجتمع لن تكون فيه أدوار سوى تلك التي يختارها الفرد أو يكسبها بجدارته. إن ما نقصده حقًا هو جوهر الإنسانية."
Gloria Steinem
"“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”"
Gloria Steinem
"Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person."
Gloria Steinem
"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."
Gloria Steinem
"I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise."
Gloria Steinem
"I can go on the road - and I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued int he presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both."
Gloria Steinem
"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities."
Gloria Steinem
"Dying seems less sad than having lived too little."
Gloria Steinem
"Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle."
Gloria Steinem
"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."
Gloria Steinem
"I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers."
Gloria Steinem
"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
Gloria Steinem
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem
"The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us"
Gloria Steinem
"In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? I leave further improvisation up to you.)"
Gloria Steinem
"We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth."
Gloria Steinem
"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."
Gloria Steinem
"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."
Gloria Steinem
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