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
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. — 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
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
Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in… — 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
Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the… — 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
