Marriage Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

— Gloria Steinem

If you really want to be lonely, get married.

— Gloria Steinem

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

— Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

— Gloria Steinem

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

— Gloria Steinem

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

— Gloria Steinem

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once…

— Gloria Steinem

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

— Gloria Steinem

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

— Gloria Steinem

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on…

— Gloria Steinem

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows…

— Gloria Steinem

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of…

— Gloria Steinem

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

— Gloria Steinem

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to…

— Gloria Steinem

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs.…

— Gloria Steinem

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming…

— Gloria Steinem

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time…

— Gloria Steinem

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as…

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should…

— Gloria Steinem

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have…

— Gloria Steinem

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career.…

— Gloria Steinem

When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few…

— Gloria Steinem

The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist,…

— Gloria Steinem