1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Male silence is not the same as listening

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

Inner space is the real frontier.