Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. – Gloria Steinem
Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. – 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
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. – Gloria Steinem
I’m not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. – Gloria Steinem
Pearl Jam doesn’t just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. – 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
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, ‘A measure by which white men are discriminated against,’ and I got so mad. – Gloria Steinem
The problem for all women is we’re identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. – Gloria Steinem
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. – 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
There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. – Gloria Steinem
If you’re going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. – Gloria Steinem
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
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
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. – Gloria Steinem
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. – Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else. – Gloria Steinem
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
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