Gloria Steinem quotes

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem)
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Gloria Steinem
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Gloria Steinem
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
Gloria Steinem
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.
Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
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
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem
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
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. (Gloria Steinem)
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Gloria Steinem
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
Gloria Steinem
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Gloria Steinem
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. (Gloria Steinem)
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Gloria Steinem
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
Gloria Steinem
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem