Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible… — 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
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two… — 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
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep… — 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
