Top 500 Gloria Steinem Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Once, women were trained to marry a doctor, not be one.”

— Gloria Steinem

152. “Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.”

— Gloria Steinem

153. “Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.”

— Gloria Steinem

154. “Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms.”

— Gloria Steinem

155. “Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.”

— Gloria Steinem

156. “When you say something in a wrong group – it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don’t belong to a group.”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

158. “The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.”

— Gloria Steinem

159. “The point of the journey is not just healing. It’s also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

161. “We’ll only really know we’ve succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn’t have to be extraordinary. That’s the point!”

— Gloria Steinem

162. “This is what forty looks like. We’ve been lying so long, who would know?”

— Gloria Steinem

163. “More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don’t want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

165. “The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.”

— Gloria Steinem

166. “Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.”

— Gloria Steinem

167. “I think I’ve wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people’s lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.”

— Gloria Steinem

168. “Superwoman is the adversary of the women’s movement.”

— Gloria Steinem

169. “Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women’s bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.”

— Gloria Steinem

170. “Evil is obvious only in retrospect.”

— Gloria Steinem

171. “Most women are one man away from welfare.”

— Gloria Steinem

172. “The old languages – at least the ones I know – don’t have gender. They don’t have gendered pronouns. There’s no “he” and “she.” A human being is a human being.”

— Gloria Steinem

173. “I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.”

— Gloria Steinem

174. “When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”

— Gloria Steinem

175. “Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.”

— Gloria Steinem

176. “Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.”

— Gloria Steinem

177. “The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. If they see their mothers and other women in their lives going forward despite fear, they’ll know it’s possible.”

— Gloria Steinem

178. “I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don’t separate laughter and seriousness.”

— Gloria Steinem

179. “No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.”

— Gloria Steinem

180. “Hope is a very unruly emotion.”

— Gloria Steinem

181. “There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.”

— Gloria Steinem

182. “We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.”

— Gloria Steinem

183. “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

184. “A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

— Gloria Steinem

185. “Women are always saying,“We can do anything that men cando.” But Men should be saying,“We can do anything that women can do.”

— Gloria Steinem

186. “Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.”

— Gloria Steinem

187. “It’s never to late for a happy childhood.”

— Gloria Steinem

188. “It turns out that we literally don’t empathize unless we’re physically present – that the oxytocin, the famous “tend and befriend” hormone is not produced unless we’re present with all five senses.”

— Gloria Steinem

189. “From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence – and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.”

— Gloria Steinem

190. “People say, ‘Oh, you’ve sacrificed so much, now’s the time to do something for yourself.’ I mean, please – that is so wrong. I don’t think I’ve sacrificed one f-king thing.”

— Gloria Steinem

191. “I do not like to write – I like to have written.”

— Gloria Steinem

192. “Needing approval is a female cultural disease, and often a sign of doing the wrong thing.”

— Gloria Steinem

193. “Liberation does not come from outside.”

— Gloria Steinem

194. “We’re communal animals. If we’re by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.”

— Gloria Steinem

195. “For a man to say, “I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids,” it’s sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn’t have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.”

— Gloria Steinem

196. “If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.”

— Gloria Steinem

197. “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

198. “No wonder studies show that women’s intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.”

— Gloria Steinem

199. “No wonder oral history turns out to be more accurate than written history. The first is handed down from the many who were present. The second is written by the few who probably weren’t.”

— Gloria Steinem

200. “This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.”

— Gloria Steinem