--- title: "6 Voting Quotes By Gloria Steinem" description: "6 Voting quotes by Gloria Steinem. Plus more from Gloria Steinem and more Voting sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/gloria-steinem-277_active_i-think-we-re-all-enmeshed-in-this-polit_611594.jpg" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/i-think-we-re-all-enmeshed-in-this-political-system-that-is-devoted/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/gloria-steinem-277_active_i-think-we-re-all-enmeshed-in-this-polit_611594.jpg) > [One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/one-of-our-biggest-problems-in-terms-of-effectiveness-is-that-we-have/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdd/gloria-steinem-277_effectiveness_one-of-our-biggest-problems-in-terms-of_814371.jpg) > [“Voting isn’t the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/voting-isn-t-the-most-we-can-do-but-it-is-the-least-to-have-a/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/876/gloria-steinem-277_democracy_voting-isn-t-the-most-we-can-do-but-it-i_1178244.jpg) > [One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/one-of-our-biggest-problems-in-terms-of-effectiveness-is-that-we-have-2/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/gloria-steinem-277_effectiveness_one-of-our-biggest-problems-in-terms-of_1197945.jpg) > [Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/voting-isn-t-the-most-we-can-do-but-it-is-the-least/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b6/gloria-steinem-277_can-do_voting-isn-t-the-most-we-can-do-but-it-i_1922366.jpg) > [The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/the-voting-booth-is-the-only-place-that-a-pauper-equals-a-billionaire/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/221/gloria-steinem-277_billionaire_the-voting-booth-is-the-only-place-that_2116840.jpg) ## Other authors on Voting - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-letterman-27689.jpg) David Letterman 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/david-letterman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jill-stein-49626.jpg) Jill Stein 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/jill-stein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-suzy-kassem-596.jpg) Suzy Kassem 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/suzy-kassem/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/rush-limbaugh/) - [Raphael Warnock 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/raphael-warnock/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rand-paul-77216.jpg) Rand Paul 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/rand-paul/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-sowell-90605.jpg) Thomas Sowell 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/thomas-sowell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dzongsar-jamyang-khyentse-rinpoche-31038.jpg) DeForest Soaries 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/deforest-soaries/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aberjhani-8924.jpg) Aberjhani 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/aberjhani/) ## More by Gloria Steinem > [People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/people-waste-more-time-waiting-for-someone-to-take-charge-of-their/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/nothing-will-happen-automatically-change-depends-on-what-you-and-i-do/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/women-are-never-again-going-to-be-mindless-coffee-makers-or-mindless/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/the-state-of-female-artists-is-very-good-but-the-very-definition-of/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/we-will-live-to-see-the-day-that-st-patrick-s-cathedral-is-a-child/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/just-when-you-thought-multi-nationals-and-crazed-consumerism-were-too/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/i-don-t-know-beyonc-but-i-have-the-impression-that-she-s-sincere-that/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/i-started-out-life-as-a-writer-and-writers-write-in-part-because-they/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/proust-s-tea-cake-has-nothing-on-one-hour-in-a-college-dorm/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/sadomasochiasm-which-we-know-very-well-doesn-t-exist-in-societies/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [Behave like everything you do matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/behave-like-everything-you-do-matters/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/part-of-traveling-over-years-means-coming-back-to-the-same-place-and/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/if-you-say-i-m-for-equal-pay-that-s-a-reform-but-if-you-say-i-m-a/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/i-think-that-part-of-everybody-s-success-is-due-to-their-looks-but-it/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) > [Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/of-course-we-can-change-we-re-very-adaptable-but-it-takes-a-while/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/voting/gloria-steinem/#itemlist", "name": "6 Voting Quotes By Gloria Steinem", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. 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