Quotes from Gloria Steinem

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

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

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

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

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.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.