The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine,… — 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
If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that… — 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
