Gloria Steinem Quotes

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Woman absent is woman dead.

I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.