Quotes from Gloria Steinem

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office

Most women are one man away from welfare.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.