“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”
Source: The Trouble With Rich Women
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Famous Gloria Steinem Quotes
Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
Source: My Life on the Road
“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”
Source: Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender
“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”
“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.”
“The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.”
Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
“Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.”
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
“By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.”
“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
“Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.”
“Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!”