Quotes By Gloria Steinem

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

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

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

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

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

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

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

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

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

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 where many men were worrying about the same thing.

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

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.

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

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

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

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, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

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

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