If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In a community center in India once, somebody said, 'Aren't you sorry you don't have children?' And I thought, 'If I answer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But… — 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
'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be… — 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
