If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free. — 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
Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone… — 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
“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
The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable… — 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