Humans Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

— Gloria Steinem

Women and men are equal human beings.

— Gloria Steinem

There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.

— Gloria Steinem

We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of…

— Gloria Steinem

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

— Gloria Steinem

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

— Gloria Steinem

It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

— Gloria Steinem

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

— Gloria Steinem

Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.

— Gloria Steinem

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human…

— Gloria Steinem

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine,…

— Gloria Steinem

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for…

— Gloria Steinem

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where…

— Gloria Steinem

We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men…

— Gloria Steinem

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered…

— Gloria Steinem

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

Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a…

— 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

Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control…

— Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There…

— Gloria Steinem

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or…

— Gloria Steinem

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

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored…

— Gloria Steinem

... 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

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful…

— Gloria Steinem

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a…

— Gloria Steinem

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in…

— 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

The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not…

— Gloria Steinem

As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of…

— Gloria Steinem

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with…

— Gloria Steinem

The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance…

— Gloria Steinem

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts…

— Gloria Steinem

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and…

— Gloria Steinem

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and…

— 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 didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be…

— Gloria Steinem

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like…

— Gloria Steinem

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by…

— Gloria Steinem