Gloria Steinem

Did a little reading about Gloria Steinem this morning. Here are a few of her famous quotes:

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”  [still true in 2011]

“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.” 

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” 

“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.” 

“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.” 

“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.” 

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”

“Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.” 

“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.”

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”