Gloria Steinem Quotes

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

I am myne owene woman, wel at ese

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.