Gloria Steinem Quotes

The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

Equality for women is progress for all.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.

I am an anomaly in my country. I hope, in the coming years, there will be more women like me.

I'm a big supporter of women doing anything they want to do!

I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.

I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

What's been fascinating about shooting my series 'American Woman' is the ubiquity of a woman's experience - and no matter who you are: a rockstar, film director, mom - we all are celebrating this movement of female empowerment, but we also realize we have a long way to go.

The more the women beat the men hopefully that will bring up more opportunities for us and then the possibilities are endless as to what can happen.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

Women are coming into their own and breaking down so many boundaries.