1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

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

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

Most books are bought by women.