Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows… — 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
