I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 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
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“When a woman fears the punishment that comes from calling herself a feminist, I ask: Will you be so unpunished if you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising. — 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
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“We understand that being able to help dependent children find what they need can be a gift in itself. Why shouldn’t we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever… — 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
