A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. — 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
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. — 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 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 believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not… — 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
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 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
For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he"… — 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
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
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
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as… — 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
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination… — 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
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
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