Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

31 quotes

Gloria Steinem is an American activist, journalist, born 1934, whose eloquence matched a remarkable career. Whether reflecting on Women or Power, Gloria Steinem brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Our collection holds 43 quotes from Gloria Steinem, each offering a different angle on Women, Power, Men, Marriage, and Change. Among their most shared lines: "Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”

— Gloria Steinem

Amazing

All Quotes by Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Change

“If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.”

— Gloria Steinem

Society

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

— Gloria Steinem

Power

“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”

— Gloria Steinem

Leadership

“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

Future

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

— Gloria Steinem

Men

“It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.”

— Gloria Steinem

Death

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

— Gloria Steinem

Dreams

“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”

— Gloria Steinem

Women

“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”

— Gloria Steinem

Hope

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

— Gloria Steinem

Power

“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.”

— Gloria Steinem

Marriage

“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”

— Gloria Steinem

Women

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

— Gloria Steinem

Marriage

“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”

— Gloria Steinem

Women

“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”

— Gloria Steinem

Change

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”

— Gloria Steinem

Amazing

“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”

— Gloria Steinem

Change

“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”

— Gloria Steinem

God

“Most women are one man away from welfare.”

— Gloria Steinem

Women