Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I… — 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
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an… — 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
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — 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 men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
