Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still… — 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
We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated. — 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
I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so… — 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