Quotes By Gloria Steinem

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

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

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

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

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.

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

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

Law and justice are not always the same.

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

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

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

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

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

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

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

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.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

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.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.