Quotes from Gloria Steinem

I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them.

It's never too late for a happy childhood.

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.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

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

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

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

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

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon.

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?

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

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.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

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.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.