Gloria Steinem Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

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

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

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

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

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

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.