Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
GLORIA STEINEMThe origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
GLORIA STEINEMNo one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
GLORIA STEINEMSome of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEMBattered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
GLORIA STEINEMThe first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
GLORIA STEINEMI have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
GLORIA STEINEMOne day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
GLORIA STEINEMA woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMInner space is the real frontier.
GLORIA STEINEMA movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEMThere are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
GLORIA STEINEM