A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least… — 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
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
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
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist… — 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
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
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“When a woman fears the punishment that comes from calling herself a feminist, I ask: Will you be so unpunished if you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — 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
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
