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
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists. — 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
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
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and… — 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
We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the… — 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 no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the… — 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 Image
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could… — 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
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
Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?'… — 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
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — 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
There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..."… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something… — 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
