1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

For a man to say, “I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids,” it’s sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn’t have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.

You do have all five sense when you’re in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it’s amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Feminism isn’t called the longest revolution for nothing.

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women’s equality is also men’s survival.

Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find that a traveling woman – perhaps especially a traveling feminist – becomes a kind of celestial bartender.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had “crazy mothers.” We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.