The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture.… — 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
Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is… — 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've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most… — 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
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was… — 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
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