Sex Quotes by Gloria Steinem

I can't mate in captivity.

— Gloria Steinem

it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

— Gloria Steinem

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

— Gloria Steinem

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

— Gloria Steinem

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

— Gloria Steinem

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't…

— Gloria Steinem

The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance…

— Gloria Steinem

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether…

— Gloria Steinem

The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against…

— Gloria Steinem

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and…

— Gloria Steinem

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the…

— Gloria Steinem

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and…

— Gloria Steinem

In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be…

— Gloria Steinem

The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist,…

— Gloria Steinem

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or…

— Gloria Steinem

If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and…

— Gloria Steinem