Gloria Steinem Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Gloria Steinem quotes, Gloria Steinem sayings, and Gloria Steinem proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. Gloria Steinem
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. Gloria Steinem
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. Gloria Steinem
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. Gloria Steinem
Patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do the megapatterns of nationalism or racism. Gloria Steinem
We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong. Gloria Steinem
More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country. Gloria Steinem
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 Gloria Steinem
Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.' Gloria Steinem
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them. Gloria Steinem
Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. Gloria Steinem
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way. Gloria Steinem
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. Gloria Steinem
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. Gloria Steinem
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. Gloria Steinem
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. Gloria Steinem
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. Gloria Steinem
We teach what we need to learn. Gloria Steinem
The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights. Gloria Steinem
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. Gloria Steinem
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. 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. That's their natural and first weapon. Gloria Steinem
The moment we find the true reason for some feeling that has an irrationally powerful hold over us, whether it has to do with body image or anything else, the spell is broken. Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem