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
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
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
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
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
Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all. — 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 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
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 definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which… — 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
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
It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not… — 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
... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him… — 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 I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few… — 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
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
I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being… — 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
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because… — 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
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. — 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
