1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It's not just getting a job for one woman, it's making life better for all women.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.