Gloria Steinem Quotes

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.

I have never let gender get in my way.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.