Quotes from Gloria Steinem

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

Most books are bought by women.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

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 . . . She will need her sisterhood.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.