Gloria Steinem Quotes

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

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 think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

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

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I've never been anti-women.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.