Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. — 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
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been… — 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
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
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
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
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
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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 out there to make it a good word in a big way by putting it in big letters on the stage, and especially because she was quoting the African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who said, "We… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
