Quotes from Gloria Steinem

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

Women and men are equal human beings.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Some women and men seem to need each other.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.