Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,… — 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
One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of… — 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
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
