Gloria Steinem Quotes

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

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

I am most certainly a feminist.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

If there's anything the name #MeToo calls to us, it's that there's a lot more dimension to the equality of men and women and the empowerment of women, which also is like the empowerment of men.

I talk about feminism being a spectrum.

I don't even know what a feminist is.

We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I'm not involved with the female world.