Quotes from Gloria Steinem

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

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

I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.

There's no shortage of great young activists.

I am not patient.

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.