Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
![“[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.” quote by Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/99d/gloria-steinem-277_children_on-gender-rating-by-insurance-companies_2185788.jpg)
