The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against… — 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
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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