Gloria SteinemChildbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2017). Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activis… ▶371LovePolitics
Gloria SteinemThe family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and ra… ▶361HumanityPolitics
Gloria SteinemOne day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! ✨ Gloria Steinem (2017). Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Word… ▶372LovePolitics
Gloria SteinemMen should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.361PoliticsThought
Gloria SteinemIn retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world. ✨ Gl… ▶351Sadness
Gloria SteinemIf women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top. ✨ Why Gloria Steinem Says She And Jennifer Aniston Are In 'Deep Sh*t’. Q&A with … ▶373Sadness
Gloria SteinemWomen have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.373Time
Gloria SteinemHope is a very unruly emotion. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2012). Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, p.182, Open Road Media351Hope
Gloria SteinemThis is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us. ✨ Gloria Steinem (1992). Revolution from Within374DeathPhilosophy
Gloria SteinemWomen's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage374Thought
Gloria SteinemSelf-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2012). Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, p.32, Open Road Media374Reading
Gloria SteinemPeople waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.363HumanityTime
Gloria SteinemA pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.352Philosophy
Gloria SteinemIt is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.341Hope
Gloria SteinemMen have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?' ✨ Interview with Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. March 16, 2010.353Politics
Gloria SteinemWe'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.364Politics
Gloria SteinemThe only thing I can't stand is discomfort.342Hope
Gloria SteinemThe first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.342Life
Gloria SteinemPatriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or e… ▶343LoveTime
Gloria SteinemNo, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had t… ▶343Life
Gloria SteinemWhatever you want to do,do it now. ✨ Gloria Steinem's Commencement Address at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. May 17, 1987.354Politics
Gloria SteinemBut somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, reb… ▶321ReadingTruth
Gloria SteinemFor much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less … ▶343DeathLovePolitics
Gloria SteinemA portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as w… ▶333Reading
Gloria SteinemWe teach what we need to learn. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2012). Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, p.9, Open Road Media355Reading
Gloria SteinemFeminism is about friends and sisters and community. ✨ Gloria Steinem On The Great Part Of Feminism:BBAACCSS1'We Have Each Other’s Backs’ By Alanna Vagianos, www… ▶355Reading
Gloria SteinemThe best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.344Philosophy
Gloria SteinemA lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.366Life
Gloria SteinemFar too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.344Humanity
Gloria SteinemI’ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn’t have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That’s so rare. So we have to loo… ▶366HumanityTruth