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
I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — 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
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
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
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be… — 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
