Gloria Steinem

When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated…

— Gloria Steinem

“The word 'still' has entered my life. People say to me, 'You're still traveling, you're still wearing blue jeans.”

— Gloria Steinem

There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older…

— Gloria Steinem

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

— Gloria Steinem

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

— Gloria Steinem

When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all…

— Gloria Steinem

No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you…

— Gloria Steinem

I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

— Gloria Steinem

[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or…

— Gloria Steinem

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

— Gloria Steinem

I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been…

— Gloria Steinem

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that…

— Gloria Steinem

The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess…

— Gloria Steinem

Women are liked better when they lose.

— Gloria Steinem

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points…

— Gloria Steinem

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men…

— Gloria Steinem

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two…

— Gloria Steinem

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

— Gloria Steinem

“As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.”

— Gloria Steinem

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent…

— Gloria Steinem

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when…

— Gloria Steinem

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

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

— Gloria Steinem

I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the…

— Gloria Steinem

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race…

— Gloria Steinem