If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture.… — 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
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts… — 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
“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will… — 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
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
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any… — 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
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over… — 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
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children,… — 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
