44 Quotes By Gloria Steinem


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 men

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?
Gloria Steinem on men

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

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

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem on parenting

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

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

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

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

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.
Gloria Steinem on romantic

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.
Gloria Steinem on society

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 women

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

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Gloria Steinem on women

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

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?
Gloria Steinem on women

Most women are one man away from welfare.
Gloria Steinem on women

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 women

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

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.
Gloria Steinem on women