1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.