There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is… — 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
People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..."… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists. — 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