Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted... But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness—and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. [...] Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. They have to say 'discourse', not 'talk'. Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful.
Gloria SteinemTag: academic-writing
Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
Gloria SteinemDon't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."
Gloria SteinemWe'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria SteinemTag: women
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Gloria SteinemI think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a new way.
Gloria SteinemThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
Gloria SteinemTag: life art gloria-steinem
I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)
Gloria SteinemTag: men women pleasure body vagina female male body-acceptance clitoris body-appreciation
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.
Gloria SteinemTag: men women religion sin vagina female patriarchy male
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
Gloria SteinemTag: self-esteem
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