Serenity Sunday

So I’m feeling a little frisky today and decided to post some quotes by Gloria Steinem, we do after all share the same birthday, even though she is older than me I like the pioneer in her, and her dedication to women’s rights. Also, she is not obsessed by dudes or the mistaken belief that being married will somehow blissfully transform her life. Her life has been about her work first, which in my opinion is an admirable quality. So let’s get on with it.

”God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.”

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”

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

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

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

“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.”

“We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.”

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

“The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.”

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.”

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

“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?”

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”

“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.”

“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”

“From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence – and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.”

“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”