1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.

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.

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.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.