1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

The definition of woman’s work is shitwork.

Needing approval is a female cultural disease, and often a sign of doing the wrong thing.

Women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn’t know it.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

But why didn’t you leave? Why didn’t you take my sister and go to New York?” she would say it didn’t matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, “If I’d left, you never would have been born.” I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don’t separate laughter and seriousness.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It’s women’s version of the Golden Rule.

Remember: “For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost.” This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn’t count.