Gloria Steinem Quotes

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

Woman, Fish, Bicycle

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

Woman, Human, Treat

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

Women, Marriage, Men

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

Dreams, After, Lose

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem

Parenting, Mother, Father

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?
Gloria Steinem

Women, Men, Emotional

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

Family, Happy, After

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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem

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

Courage, Few, Daughters

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

Women, Amazing, Either

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

Funny, Marriage, Career

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

Women, Men, Wanted

Most women are one man away from welfare.
Gloria Steinem

Women, Away, Welfare

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

Work, Women, Home

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

Marriage, Sex, Job

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
Gloria Steinem

Remember, Learn, Teach

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

Person, May, Violence

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

Moving, End, Around

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

Power, Process, Taken

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

Women, Men, Problem

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

America, Middle, Millions

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

Money, Change, Watch

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

Women, Try, Simply

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

Work, Women, Care

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Nationality: American

Born: March 25, 1934

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