Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me." — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful cartoon of Reagan in a Western hat and he's saying, "A pregnant woman in every home, a gun in… — 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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever… — 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
We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. — 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 same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I… — 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 problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a… — 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
