Quotes from Gloria Steinem

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.