Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. — 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
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children -… — 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
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an… — 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
'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. — 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
