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
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. — 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
Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I… — 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
I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing… — 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
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — 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 don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time. — 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
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were… — 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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he"… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do… — 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
