Gloria Steinem quotes

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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.

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

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

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

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.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

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.

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

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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.

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

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

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.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

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.'

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

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.'

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

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

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.

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

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.'

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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

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

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

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

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

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.