The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — 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
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. — 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 tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do.… — 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
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible,… — 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
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
