Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two… — 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
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
