The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for… — 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
