In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training. — 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
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will… — 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
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not… — 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
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible… — 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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not… — 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
