We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not… — 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
Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. — 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
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that… — 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
For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I… — 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
