I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this… — 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
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
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as… — 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
