Quotes by

Gloria Steinem

Hope is a very unruly emotion. – Gloria Steinem

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. – Gloria Steinem

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

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. – Gloria Steinem

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. – Gloria Steinem

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. – Gloria Steinem

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us. – Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. – Gloria Steinem

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. – Gloria Steinem

The surest way to be alone is to get married. – Gloria Steinem

Most women are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. – Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. – Gloria Steinem