Gender Quotes by Gloria Steinem

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he"…

— Gloria Steinem

I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human…

— 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

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

Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost…

— Gloria Steinem

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

— Gloria Steinem

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing…

— Gloria Steinem

For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes…

— Gloria Steinem

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

— Gloria Steinem

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

— Gloria Steinem

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as…

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of…

— Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

— Gloria Steinem

[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having…

— 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

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees…

— Gloria Steinem