If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. - Gloria Steinem
In depression you care about nothing. In sadness you care about everything. - 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 . . . She will need her sisterhood. - Gloria Steinem
Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night - Gloria Steinem
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. - Gloria Steinem
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. - 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. - Gloria Steinem
Evil is obvious only in retrospect. - Gloria Steinem
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. - Gloria Steinem
I can't mate in captivity. - Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. - Gloria Steinem
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. - Gloria Steinem
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. - Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. - Gloria Steinem
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us - Gloria Steinem
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. - Gloria Steinem
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. - Gloria Steinem
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. - Gloria Steinem
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. - Gloria Steinem
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. - Gloria Steinem
Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle. - Gloria Steinem
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. - Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem
Instead, we talked about the reasons to support political leaders who support us, never mind party labels. It was the kind of campaigning only a movement could do. - Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. - Gloria Steinem
All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back. - Gloria Steinem
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. - Gloria Steinem
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. - Gloria Steinem
The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free. - Gloria Steinem
I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. - Gloria Steinem
One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart. - Gloria Steinem