1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.

So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

God knows (She knows) that women try.