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
If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it -… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was… — 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
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
I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping… — 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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