Quotes By Gloria Steinem

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

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

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.