If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Image
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it -… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The idea that women are “our own worst enemies” forces us to admit that we don’t have the power to be, even… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also underestimated.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is “I don’t know enough to be a feminist.” Or even “I’m… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two… — 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
