The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you. — 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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't… — 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
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as… — 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
I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..."… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and… — 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
There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as… — 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
Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control… — 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
