We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger. — 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