Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has… — 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
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother… — 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