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
I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to… — 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
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of… — 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
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to… — 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
Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible,… — 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
There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would… — 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
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men… — 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
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
