Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this… — 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
“if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me. — 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
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not… — 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
