Top 30 Gloria Allred Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is no change without sacrifice.”

— Gloria Allred

2. “I actually feel most relaxed when I’m working.”

— Gloria Allred

3. “Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.”

— Gloria Allred

4. “When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn’t know where I was going in life.”

— Gloria Allred

5. “Well, I like empowering my clients.”

— Gloria Allred

6. “Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.”

— Gloria Allred

7. “Fighting injustice keeps you young.”

— Gloria Allred

8. “It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.”

— Gloria Allred

9. “Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.”

— Gloria Allred

10. “Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.”

— Gloria Allred

11. “I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.”

— Gloria Allred

12. “I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It’s all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we’re all being denied our rights.”

— Gloria Allred

13. “The more I know about men the more I like dogs.”

— Gloria Allred

14. “There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.”

— Gloria Allred

15. “Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.”

— Gloria Allred

16. “Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?”

— Gloria Allred

17. “I have two grandchildren.”

— Gloria Allred

18. “Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.”

— Gloria Allred

19. “When you’re fighting for civil rights, it’s sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.”

— Gloria Allred

20. “Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage – or, for that matter, in any other relationship.”

— Gloria Allred

21. “I’m a civil rights attorney. I’m a victim rights attorney.”

— Gloria Allred

22. “I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women’s rights.”

— Gloria Allred

23. “Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won’t always open unless you fight for your rights.”

— Gloria Allred

24. “I was a single mother when my child was little.”

— Gloria Allred

25. “People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.”

— Gloria Allred

26. “I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.”

— Gloria Allred

27. “Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.”

— Gloria Allred

28. “As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.”

— Gloria Allred

29. “There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.”

— Gloria Allred

30. “I have known some wonderful men.”

— Gloria Allred

31. “Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.”

— Gloria Allred

32. “I have represented people in book deals.”

— Gloria Allred

33. “I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.”

— Gloria Allred

34. “When you have the ability and desire to help someone, the only moral choice is to act.”

— Gloria Allred