Gloria Steinem quotes

Born
March 25, 1934 Toledo, Ohio, U.S.

Occupation
Writer, journalist.

Gloria Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
– Gloria Steinem

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

It’s heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
– Gloria Steinem

Liberation does not come from outside.
– Gloria Steinem

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
– Gloria Steinem

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
– Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same.
– Gloria Steinem

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
– Gloria Steinem

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

How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
– Gloria Steinem

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
– Gloria Steinem

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

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

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
– Gloria Steinem

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
– Gloria Steinem

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, ‘Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.’
– Gloria Steinem

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
– Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
– Gloria Steinem

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

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it’s what comes from our friends.
– Gloria Steinem

The only thing I can’t stand is discomfort.
– Gloria Steinem

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
– Gloria Steinem

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

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
– Gloria Steinem

I’m a freelance person, and I’ve always been able to support myself.
– Gloria Steinem

Women’s progress has been a collective effort.
– Gloria Steinem

I can say whatever it is that I feel.
– Gloria Steinem

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
– Gloria Steinem

It’s easier to blame the person with less power.
– Gloria Steinem