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Gloria Steinem Quotes

American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Power Process Empowerment Taken

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

Women Power Hate Experience Men

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

Winter Good Health Food Wait Body

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

People Sex Way Race Binary Sense

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

Women Value Strong Rich Fat Become

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

Women Problem Look Hearts Our How

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

Women Men Racism Problem Violence

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.

Strength Fire Brain You Person May

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

People Moving End Feel Movement Us

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Experience Death Aging Everything

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

Family Great Aging Window Help You

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Women America Look Belief Pageant

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