Quotes from Gloria Steinem

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.

so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

You're always the person you were when you were born, she says impatiently. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

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

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

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

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

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules p.79

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

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Laughter is a rescue. p.204

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, Hate generalizes, love specifies. That's what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.