44 Quotes By Gloria Steinem


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

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

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

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

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

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.
Gloria Steinem on death

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

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.
Gloria Steinem on family

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.
Gloria Steinem on food

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

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.
Gloria Steinem on future

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

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

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.
Gloria Steinem on home

Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Gloria Steinem on hope

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

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

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.
Gloria Steinem on marriage

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

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