Gloria Steinem Quotes

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, fo...

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

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

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have hea...

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and o...

I can go on the road - and I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of bei...

I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as eit...

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn an...

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage...

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformat...

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never g...

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more lik...

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from ...

Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For in...

Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, af...

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to gui...

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm...

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or...

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is...

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be th...

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.

For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I do...

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling c...

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not n...

For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it I do...

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please...

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years wa...

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are inte...

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for wome...

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...

Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's n...

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a sma...

Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, h...

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what...

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give...

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminis...

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were u...

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to f...

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word...

In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious ...

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The unive...

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female...

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the bas...

It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I reco...

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against ...

Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and ...

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger ...

Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore ever...

hate generalizes, love specifies

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79