Gloria Steinem Quotes

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

Women must enjoy equal rights with men. The remaining shackles that hamper their freedom must be removed so that they can participate constructively and profoundly in shaping the life of the country.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

I'm proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward.

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.