Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons. — 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
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“an audience is half women and half men, women worry about the reaction of the men around them. But” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland. — 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
