Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. -Gloria Steinem Women
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. -Gloria Steinem Marriage
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
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. -Gloria Steinem Future
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. -Gloria Steinem Women
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! -Gloria Steinem Death
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
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -Gloria Steinem Marriage
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. -Gloria Steinem Amazing
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. -Gloria Steinem Religion
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. -Gloria Steinem Strength
Women 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 Steinem Age
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. -Gloria Steinem Women
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? -Gloria Steinem Women
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. -Gloria Steinem Politics
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. -Gloria Steinem Power
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner. -Gloria Steinem History
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. -Gloria Steinem Leadership
