The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. — 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
The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 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
