Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

—Gloria Steinem

About Gloria Steinem

Portrait of Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem ( STY-nəm; March 25, 1934 – September 2, 2026) was an American journalist and social movement activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who remained particularly prominent in the 1980s and...

More quotations from Gloria Steinem

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

—Gloria Steinem

We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are
trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must
be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose
unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and
international stage.… Changing the way we raise children is the only long-term path to peace or arms control, and neither
has ever been more crucial. As the feminist adage says, "The
personal is political.

—Gloria Steinem

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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

—Gloria Steinem

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

—Gloria Steinem

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

—Gloria Steinem

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More quotations tagged with “evil”

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

—Evelyn Underhill

I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

—Edmund Burke

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

—Blaise Pascal

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