Quotes By Gloria Steinem

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

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.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

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.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

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.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

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

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

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Law and justice are not always the same.

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?

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

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

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

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