We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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
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 spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — 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
This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to… — 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
[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the… — 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
Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and… — 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
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