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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.