Gloria Steinem Quotes And Sayings

If You Ask Men About Their Body Image, They Will Tell You They Look Better Than They Do. And If You Ask A Woman, She'll Tell You She Looks Worse.

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.

Women Are More Than Smart Enough To See That Mccain's Policies Are A Disaster... He Is Anti- Every Reproductive Issue We've Ever Fought For.

Perfectionism Attaches To What Is Valued In The Culture.

If Technology And Medicine Are Used By Women To Have Children Or Not To Have Children Or To Have Healthier Children - That's One Thing. But If It's Used To Say, 'You're Not A Real Woman Unless You Have A Child; Therefore, Take All These Dangerous Hormones And Have One At 54,' Then It's Another Story.

The Miss America Pageant Reinforces A Belief That Women Are Merely How They Look And How They Please.

As Long As Working Women Also Have To Do The Work Of Child And Family Care At Home, They Will Have Two Jobs Instead Of One. Perhaps More Important, Children Will Grow Up Thinking That Only Women Can Be Loving And Nurturing, And Men Cannot.

I'm So Happy That We're Finally Hearing The Stories And Voices Of Women Who Make America. We Do What We See, Not What We're Told, So An Incomplete Story Of This Country Damages Everyone.

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.

Without Leaps Of Imagination, Or Dreaming, We Lose The Excitement Of Possibilities. Dreaming, After All, Is A Form Of Planning.

What Has The Women's Movement Learned From Geraldine Ferraro's Candidacy For Vice President? Never Get Married.

Writing Is The Only Thing That, When I Do It, I Don't Feel I Should Be Doing Something Else.

The Authority Of Any Governing Institution Must Stop At Its Citizen's Skin.

Law And Justice Are Not Always The Same.

The Future Depends Entirely On What Each Of Us Does Every Day; A Movement Is Only People Moving.

The Electoral System Is Not Where Change Starts - It Usually Starts In Communities And From The Bottom Up - But It Is Where Change Can Be Stopped.

Obviously There Is No Such Thing As Race, And In Many Ways, Sex Is A Continuum, Not A Binary. So It Doesn't Make Sense To Label People In That Way.

If I Read The Word 'Problematize' One More Time, I'm Going To Vomit.

I Supported Hillary Clinton. She Would Have Made An Excellent President. I Didn't Think She Could Get Elected. I Thought It Was Too Soon.

In The Suffragist And Abolitionist Era, There Were A Lot Of White Women And Some Black Men And Women Who Argued For The Old Hierarchy And Against Universal Adult Suffrage - Often On Religious Grounds.

We'll Never Solve The Feminization Of Power Until We Solve The Masculinity Of Wealth.

A Parking Lot Attendant Who's A Guy Makes A Lot More Money Than A Child-care Attendant Who's A Woman.

Gender Is Probably The Most Restricting Force In American Life.

Everything About Aging In My Experience So Far Has Been A Plus. Except The Death Part!

Women Don't Want To Exchange Places With Men. Male Chauvinists, Science-fiction Writers And Comedians May Favor That Idea For Its Shock Value, But Psychologists Say It Is A Fantasy Based On Ruling-class Ego And Guilt.

We're Never Going To Have Democratic Countries Or Peaceful Countries Until We Have Democratic Or Peaceful Families.

A Bad Facelift Is Like A Bad Toupee.

The Caste Systems Of Sex And Race Are Interdependent And Can Only Be Uprooted Together.

Even Before Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton Threw Their Exploratory Committees Into The Ring, Every Reporter Seemed To Be Asking, 'Which Candidate Are Americans More Ready For: A White Woman Or A Black Man?'

Women's Progress Has Been A Collective Effort.

Women Tend To Be Conservative In Youth And Get More Radical As They Get Older Because They Lose Power With Age. So If A Young Woman Is Not A Feminist, I Say, 'Just Wait.'

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.

Pearl Jam Doesn't Just Sing About Issues They Care About. These Guys Walk It Like They Talk It.

Men Are Victims Of Their Own Impulses.

I'm A Freelance Person, And I've Always Been Able To Support Myself.

A Woman Reading Playboy Feels A Little Like A Jew Reading A Nazi Manual.

The Origins Of Violence Against Women By Men Are Not Biological. If That Were The Case, It Would Exist In Every Culture. And It Doesn't Exist In Every Culture.

The First Resistance To Social Change Is To Say It's Not Necessary.

In A Way, Women Are A Psychic Immigrant Group.

Because We Are Communal Creatures, If You're With People Who Think You're Smart, You're Smart, And If They Think You're Dumb, You're Dumb.

The Thing About Aging Is All Your Old Lovers, Pretty Much If They Were Really Friends, Become Your Family. It's Great. You Have Those Terrible Feelings Of Possessiveness And Uncertainty Go Out The Window. You Have What You Shared. You Know You Would Help Each Other In Times Of Trouble No Matter What.

I Always Wanted To Put A Sign Up On The Road To Yale Saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

The Problem For All Women Is We're Identified By How We Look Instead Of By Our Heads And Our Hearts.