1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn’t for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it – and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That’s why Native people were guarding it.

At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of women’s “libbers”, bra burners, and radicals; then women on welfare; then briefcase carrying imitations of male executives; then unfulfilled women who forgot to have children; then women voters... that really could decide elections. That last was too dangerous, so suddenly we were told we were in a “postfeminist” age...

The original languages didn’t even have he and she. They didn’t have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

I just think that culturally, women – we’re all human beings – but at least we don’t have our masculinity to prove.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they’re kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

I haven’t been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you’re more likely to be treated as an individual.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn’t create the crime.