Gloria Steinem Feminist Quotations

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

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

Most women are one man away from welfare.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

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