Feminism Quotes by Gloria Steinem

The political is personal.

— Gloria Steinem

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

— Gloria Steinem

Some women and men seem to need each other.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

— Gloria Steinem

Women and men are equal human beings.

— Gloria Steinem

Women are liked better when they lose.

— Gloria Steinem

God knows (She knows) that women try.

— Gloria Steinem

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

— Gloria Steinem

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

— Gloria Steinem

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

— Gloria Steinem

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

— Gloria Steinem

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

— Gloria Steinem

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

— Gloria Steinem

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

— Gloria Steinem

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to…

— Gloria Steinem

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside…

— Gloria Steinem

“The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.”

— Gloria Steinem

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness…

— Gloria Steinem

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

— Gloria Steinem

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can…

— Gloria Steinem

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls…

— Gloria Steinem

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming…

— Gloria Steinem

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered…

— Gloria Steinem

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

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time…

— Gloria Steinem

It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that…

— Gloria Steinem

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is…

— Gloria Steinem

“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever…

— Gloria Steinem

I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to…

— Gloria Steinem

“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the…

— Gloria Steinem

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means…

— Gloria Steinem

“Now I look at artificial boundaries—lines that can stop no current of air or drought or polluted river—and mourn the violence lavished…

— Gloria Steinem

“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning…

— Gloria Steinem

“We understand that being able to help dependent children find what they need can be a gift in itself. Why shouldn’t we…

— Gloria Steinem

We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of…

— Gloria Steinem

“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used…

— Gloria Steinem

“I’m not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what…

— Gloria Steinem