1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.

The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

Everyone is unique and each experience is different.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.