Gloria Steinem Quotes

I know I just barely posted something, but it just occurred to me that I should do something like this. Such ideas always come to me when I'm supposed to be doing other things (...like packing...). These are some of my favorite Gloria Steinem quotes.

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "
"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "
"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "
"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. " (I really like that one.)
"I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."

Not, of course, that Gloria Steinem doesn't have her own problems.


Actually, now I feel like posting some more quotes. These are from Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
"Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own."
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
"I shall not grow conservative with age."
"The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion."


...This shouldn't be so fun. Now for Susan B. Anthony quotes...
"Independence is happiness."
"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."
"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."
"The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it."
"The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God."
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."


I think that's more than enough for today.