Frasi di Gloria Steinem

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“La pornografia riguarda la dominazione. L'erotismo riguarda la reciprocità.”

“Le persone ricche pianificano per quattro generazioni. Le persone povere pianificano per il sabato sera.”

“La cosa più tragica è che il tempo, lo sforzo, l'ossessione dedicati a spiegare la morte di Marilyn hanno fatto ben poco per spiegarne la vita.”

“Se Marilyn fosse stata così semplice da imitare, oggi ci sarebbero molte più sosia di quante in realtà non ce ne siano già.”

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Non voglio generalizzare […] ma gli uomini tendono a diventare più conservatori perché con l'età assumono più potere, mentre le donne tendono a diventare più radicali perché invecchiando perdono potere. Perciò non è giusto considerare la maggioranza delle donne così come si considera la maggioranza degli uomini perché le donne tendono a essere più politicamente attive con l'età. Invece quando sono giovani pensano "Dove stanno tutti i ragazzi? Stanno con Bernie […]"”

“Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don’t have to put on an act. If I’m not feminine enough for someone, I don’t care, because femininity is different in everyone’s mind.”

“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go.”

“Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the “Aha!” that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.”

“I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice”

“Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain.”