1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.