Gloria Steinem Quotes

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Gloria Steinem

Profession : Activist

Birth : March 25, 1934

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

Gloria Steinem

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.

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

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.

Gloria Steinem

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Gloria Steinem

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

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.

Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem

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.

Gloria Steinem

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.'

Gloria Steinem

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Gloria Steinem