Feminism Quotes by Gloria Steinem · Page 2

The political is personal.

— Gloria Steinem

“an audience is half women and half men, women worry about the reaction of the men around them. But”

— Gloria Steinem

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

— Gloria Steinem

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

— Gloria Steinem

“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.”

— Gloria Steinem

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

— Gloria Steinem

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

— Gloria Steinem

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

— Gloria Steinem

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

— Gloria Steinem

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even…

— Gloria Steinem

“In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also underestimated.”

— Gloria Steinem

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate…

— Gloria Steinem

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with…

— Gloria Steinem

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

— Gloria Steinem

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't…

— Gloria Steinem

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was…

— Gloria Steinem

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and…

— Gloria Steinem

Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an…

— Gloria Steinem

If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier.…

— Gloria Steinem

“Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence…

— Gloria Steinem

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

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

Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes…

— Gloria Steinem

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

The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ -…

— Gloria Steinem

“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the…

— Gloria Steinem

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means…

— Gloria Steinem

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

— Gloria Steinem

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

— Gloria Steinem

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

— Gloria Steinem

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

— Gloria Steinem

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”

— Gloria Steinem

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

— Gloria Steinem

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

— Gloria Steinem

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

— Gloria Steinem

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power

— Gloria Steinem

Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.

— Gloria Steinem

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

— Gloria Steinem

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

— Gloria Steinem

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

— Gloria Steinem