You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the… — 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
If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to… — 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
