1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Feminism... is not ‘women as victims’ but women refusing to be victims.

We do what we see and what we’re told. If we haven’t been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don’t have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it’s not only natural but inevitable.

Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren’t written.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We’re clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven’t reached true democracy yet.

Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And.

If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.

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.