A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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.
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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
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If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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

There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
- Gloria Steinem Quote

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

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

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
- Gloria Steinem Quote