Gloria Steinem Quotes

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

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

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

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

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

The ends and means are a seamless web.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

Helping begins with listening.

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

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

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Behave like everything you do matters.

no one ever got radicalized by being grateful

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

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

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

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

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

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

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

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

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.