The Words and Wisdom of Gloria Steinem

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

21 Sep 2006 11:30 AM

Whether you agree with Gloria Steinem or not, her words are incredibly thought provoking. As a woman, a wife and a mother - I like the controversialist of her thoughts and statements. I like what they make me think about. In fact, I'm starting to think that I'm just an oddball because the more controversial and the more inflammatory the thoughts - the more I reaffirm my own beliefs and my own comfort level with my life and my choices in this life.

Again, I'm probably just an oddball, but with this in mind. Here are some of my favorite thought-provoking Gloria Steinem comments - I'd love to hear what you think about them.

• "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
• "Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power."
• "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
• "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
• "Jacqueline Onassis has a very clear understanding of marriage. I have a lot of respect for women who win the game with rules given you by the enemy."
• "Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it"
• "Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."
• "Every country has peasants - ours have money"
• "We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs."
• "Women age, but men mature"
• "I can't mate in captivity."
• "One day, an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the earth"
• "Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common sense reply that we don't have as much money. That was true, but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage"
• "It may eventually turn out that men and women have similar degrees of aggressiveness, but for the next fifty years or so until the sex roles are reformed, women will be a good and peaceful influence in politics."

Now if you are wondering why these are my favorite of her quotes - the last one sums it up for me.

What do you think?

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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