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Gloria Steinem Quotes


If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.