1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.