Gloria Steinem Feminism Quotations

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

The political is personal.

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.