I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible… — 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
If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in… — 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
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be… — 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
The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — 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
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're… — 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
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from… — 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
