Feminism Quotes by Gloria Steinem · Page 2

Women are liked better when they lose.

— Gloria Steinem

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

— Gloria Steinem

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

— Gloria Steinem

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So…

— Gloria Steinem

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

— Gloria Steinem

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

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

— Gloria Steinem

“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

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

— Gloria Steinem

I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender…

— Gloria Steinem

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where…

— Gloria Steinem

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their…

— Gloria Steinem

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're…

— Gloria Steinem

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

“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever…

— Gloria Steinem

I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to…

— Gloria Steinem

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is…

— Gloria Steinem

“I’m not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what…

— Gloria Steinem

I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than…

— 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

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

— Gloria Steinem

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

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

— Gloria Steinem

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

— Gloria Steinem

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

— Gloria Steinem

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

— Gloria Steinem

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

— 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