Women Quotes by Gloria Steinem

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

— Gloria Steinem

Women are liked better when they lose.

— Gloria Steinem

God knows (She knows) that women try.

— Gloria Steinem

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

— Gloria Steinem

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

— Gloria Steinem

Most women are one man away from welfare.

— Gloria Steinem

Most books are bought by women.

— Gloria Steinem

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

— Gloria Steinem

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

— Gloria Steinem

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

— Gloria Steinem

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

— Gloria Steinem

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

— Gloria Steinem

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

— Gloria Steinem

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can…

— Gloria Steinem

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

— Gloria Steinem

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

— Gloria Steinem

As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two…

— Gloria Steinem

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into…

— Gloria Steinem

Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children,…

— Gloria Steinem

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal…

— Gloria Steinem

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in…

— Gloria Steinem

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of…

— Gloria Steinem

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any…

— Gloria Steinem

I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over…

— Gloria Steinem

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone…

— Gloria Steinem

'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be…

— Gloria Steinem

“In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an…

— Gloria Steinem

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside…

— Gloria Steinem

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as…

— Gloria Steinem

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children -…

— Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

— Gloria Steinem

Some women and men seem to need each other.

— Gloria Steinem

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

— Gloria Steinem

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

— Gloria Steinem

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

— Gloria Steinem

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power

— Gloria Steinem

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

— Gloria Steinem

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

— Gloria Steinem

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

— Gloria Steinem

Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.

— Gloria Steinem