Quotes from Gloria Steinem

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

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. She will need her sisterhood.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory. Living things have evolved as travelers, Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.