My Favorite Quotes From People That I Know Gloria Steinem Edition by Michael “MJ The Terrible” Johnson:
“The word cult is in cultural. I prefer the word movement. MJ, you are manly man masculine, but not entirely intolerable. Mansplain it to us my Ohio birth brother.” Gloria Steinem
“America is at a crossroads. The current culture war will determine where we go from here.” Gloria Steinem
“Drop it and move on and bitter ex do not go together. Bitter stays bitter. The only way that changes is reconciliation, a life changing event, a miracle, a new love interest enters the picture, or something like that. Other than that, bitter stays bitter and you just have to find a way to deal with it.” Gloria Steinem
“I don’t know if I like you yet. I like what I hear about you and your cause, but I need to be around you to feel what kind of energy you put out before I commit. It’s my thing, and I can’t say yes to your request until I have met you, until I get a feel for who you really are. I’m 87. You are coming to see me. What does your schedule look like end of next week?” Gloria Steinem
“Pearl Jam doesn’t just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.” Gloria Steinem
“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.” Gloria Steinem
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.” Gloria Steinem
“The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it’s what comes from our friends.” Gloria Steinem
“Hope is a very unruly emotion.” Gloria Steinem
“A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.” Gloria Steinem
“There’s nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.” Gloria Steinem
“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.” Gloria Steinem
“There’s no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.” Gloria Steinem
“Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.” Gloria Steinem
“Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part.” Gloria Steinem
“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” Gloria Steinem
“I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don’t want to talk.” Gloria Steinem
“Logic is in the eye of the logician.” Gloria Steinem
“Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle-class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead for only a few weeks or days.” Gloria Steinem
“Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the… that is the choice we have on the party ballot.” Gloria Steinem
“Age brings freedom. When you’re young, you’re much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.” Gloria Steinem
“If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.” Gloria Steinem
“Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.” Gloria Steinem
“If you’re going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.” Gloria Steinem
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem
“Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.” Gloria Steinem
“Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.” Gloria Steinem
“Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.” Gloria Steinem
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