Quote

I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
Editor
Essayist
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Lecturer
Reporter
Writer
Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
Among
Humor
Emotion
Free
Always
Things
Employed
Think
Crucial
Thinking
Absolutely

More quotes by Gloria Steinem

Image
We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
Gloria Steinem
Image
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
Image
I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.
Gloria Steinem
Image
What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming more than, or at least not becoming less than, instead of becoming part
Gloria Steinem
Image
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.
Gloria Steinem
Image
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
Gloria Steinem
Image
Male silence is not the same as listening
Gloria Steinem
Image
Women are always saying,We can do anything that men cando. But Men should be saying,We can do anything that women can do.
Gloria Steinem
Image
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
Gloria Steinem
Image
If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54, then it's another story.
Gloria Steinem
Image
The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.
Gloria Steinem
Image
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.
Gloria Steinem
Image
I do not like to write - I like to have written.
Gloria Steinem
Image
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
Gloria Steinem
Image
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
Gloria Steinem
Image
You are the leader you've been waiting for.
Gloria Steinem
Image
women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
Gloria Steinem
Image
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
Gloria Steinem
Image
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, nce in a while, pride and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
Image
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
Gloria Steinem