1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

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.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.