I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be… — 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
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children -… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be… — 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
women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not… — 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
