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Famous Gloria Steinem Quotes
“I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.”
“I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you.”
“One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.”
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.”
“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”
“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”
“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”
“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”
“I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.”
“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.”
“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.”
“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”