In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? — 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
