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
Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from… — 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
Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. — 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
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for… — 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
