If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them? — 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
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. — 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
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least… — 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
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is… — 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
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
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
If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their… — 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
Women get hit with a double whammy. If they're attractive, they're presumed to have slept their way to the top. If they're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — 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
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel… — 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
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem. — 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
We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even… — 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
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
