"One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my ...
Everyone has a home but me.
More Gloria Steinem quotes
"Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.
"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke...
"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
"I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s...
"Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a wa...
"Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.
"My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither d...
"As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
"Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same ke...
"The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.
"I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}I was angry abou...