Gloria Steinem's Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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?

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

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.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

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

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

Most women are one man away from welfare.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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