Gloria Steinem Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Equality, Empowering

  "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Jobs, Sex

• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Witty, Work

  Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

  Attributed

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Two, Choices, Feminist

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Feminist, Feminism

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.326, Open Road Media

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Simple, Views, Feminism

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Unique, Heredity And Environment

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminist, Waiting, Feminism

• Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminism, Revolution

• I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Women, Careers

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Reading, Feminist, Feminism

  McCall's, Oct. 1970

• Most women are one man away from welfare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equality, Men, Feminist

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Pie, Feminism

  "Wrong woman, wrong message" by Gloria Steinem, articles.latimes.com. September 4, 2008.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  "Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2005.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Motivational, Women, Feminist

  "Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in" by Gregg Jarrett, www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

• Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

  Gloria Steinem

  Community, Feminism

  "Gloria Steinem On The Great Part Of Feminism:BBAACCSS1‘We Have Each Other’s Backs’" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2014.

• 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).

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Husband, Feminism

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media

• Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

  Gloria Steinem

  Work, Home, Men

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.242, Open Road Media

• As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

  Gloria Steinem

  Opposites, Anxiety, Individuality

• It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.

  Gloria Steinem

  Distance, Successful, Years

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

• Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Confused, Choices

• When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Leader

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

• Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Humorous, Gay

• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, College, Ideas

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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