Quotes from Gloria Steinem

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.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

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

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

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

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

The political is personal.

Religion is often politics made sacred.