Gloria Steinem Quotes

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Men are irrelevant.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

Every time a male coach berates his players by referring to them as “ladies” or tells them to “hike their skirts” while playing, we’re perpetuating an atmosphere where women are not men’s equals.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

There are definitely challenges that come with being the only woman in any room, and on a show like 'The Breakfast Club,' with strong opinions, it can be hard to get the guys to see things from my point of view.

It's such a chauvinistic sport, a lot of the owners wanted to kick me off.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.