Quotes By Gloria Steinem

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

Law and justice are not always the same.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

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.

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

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

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

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

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

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

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?

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

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