After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.” — 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
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. — 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
As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if… — 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
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
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
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — 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
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
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
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's… — 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
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also underestimated.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 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
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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