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












Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
More Gloria Steinem quotes
"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one whe...
"Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
"All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big th...
"If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's us...
"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, t...
"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existi...
"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
"I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that...
"No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the ...