Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The moment we find the reason behind an emotion Â… the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning… — 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
During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having… — 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
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — 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