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
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
[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't… — 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
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — 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
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
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
If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold,… — 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
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — 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
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — 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
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
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'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 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
Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which… — 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
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