Quotes By Gloria Steinem

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

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

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.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

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.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Most women are one man away from welfare.

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

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.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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

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.

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

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.

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