Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people… — 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
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to… — 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
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as… — 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
... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has… — 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
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that… — 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
