When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become… — 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
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
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
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me." — 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
Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control… — 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've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can… — 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
Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women. — 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
