Gloria Steinem

Activist

231 Quotes

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

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

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

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

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

Pornografi adalah instruksinya. Pemerkosaan adalah praktiknya, wanita yang dipukuli adalah praktiknya, dan anak-anak yang dipukuli adalah praktiknya.

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

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

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

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

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