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
I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real… — 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
