Quotes from Gloria Steinem

Now I see a few campuses that are honest

I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

You know the hospital shows on television?" this woman asks. "When someone's heart stops and has to be restarted with electric paddles? That's what you and Margaret did for us. Please tell her daughter our hearts have been going ever since.

I thank him for surviving—and teaching.

He has given us all the gift of spontaneity—and hope.

I discovered that Native languages, Cherokee and others--like Bengali and other ancient languages--didn't have gendered pronouns like "he" and "she.

Emotional security, continuity, a sense of being loved unconditionally for oneself—all those turn out to be as important to a child's development as all but the most basic food and shelter.

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

People nod at the idea that when God is depicted inly as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptising with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life.

I can go on the road—because I can come home. I come home—because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

This country thinks people with money are interesting, not people who need money like

It's one of the great things about campaigns that experience trumps everything

Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.

Take General Electric, for instance. Its happy ad jingle, "We Bring Good Things to Life," doesn't tell you that GE has been (1) a major maker of nuclear weapons parts

as Senator Barbara Mikulski pointed out, "We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year.

If, in monotheism, God is man, man is God. Why does God look suspiciously like the ruling class? Why is Jesus, a Jewish guy from the Middle East, blond and blue-eyed? There

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.

She was a civil rights advocate. He was a feminist.

YOU CANNOT THINK YOURSELF INTO RIGHT LIVING. YOU LIVE YOURSELF INTO RIGHT THINKING. —NATIVE ELDERS IV.

Saying politics is dirty is just a way of keeping us from changing the politics of our own lives.

Whatever the superior group has will be used as proof of its superiority. Thus, if men could menstruate, it would become a great thing. Without this inbuilt measure of time and the movements of the universe, how could any woman become a mathematician? An astronomer?

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.

Our tactics must always reflect our goals. There is no such thing as killing for peace, strengthening people by making their decisions for them, or suppressing dissent to gain freedom.

Not one study has proved that women talk more than men, but numerous studies indicate that men talk more than women. Women are thought to be more talkative than men because they are being measured against the expectation of female silence.