After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married. — 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
Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women get hit with a double whammy. If they're attractive, they're presumed to have slept their way to the top. If they're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on… — 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
I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel… — 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
[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. — 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
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content… — 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
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
![“[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.” quote by Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b8/gloria-steinem-277_do-unto-others_on-sexual-politics-the-golden-rule-works_1706206.jpg)
![“[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is…” quote by Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/gloria-steinem-277_action_on-the-internet-and-activism-the-danger_569335.jpg)
