Gloria Steinem

“This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the...”

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their fami...”

“Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.”

“I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'”

“The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did....”

“Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.”

“Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.”

“The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.”

“Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being pa...”

“If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.”

“What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.”

“I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'”

“In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.”

“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...”

“What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.”

“To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.”

“The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.”

“The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government cen...”

“All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.”