Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. – Gloria Steinem
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. – Gloria Steinem
Most womens magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. – Gloria Steinem
If you say, Im for equal pay, thats a reform. But if you say. Im a feminist, thats a transformation of society. – Gloria Steinem
Id like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. Id have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. – Gloria Steinem
Men should think twice before making widow hood womans only path to power. – Gloria Steinem
Well never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. – Gloria Steinem
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isnt it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? – Gloria Steinem
Ive yet to be on a campus where most women werent worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. Ive yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. – Gloria Steinem
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, theres no turning back. – Gloria Steinem
Its an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems dont try to make it posthumous. – Gloria Steinem
Weve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. – Gloria Steinem
If the shoe doesnt fit, must we change the foot? – Gloria Steinem
The first resistance to social change is to say its not necessary. – Gloria Steinem
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. – Gloria Steinem
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. – Gloria Steinem
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. – Gloria Steinem
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. – Gloria Steinem
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. – Gloria Steinem
