Top 193 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

About Gloria Steinem

These are some quotes by American author Gloria Steinem, who was born on March 25, 1934.

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.

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

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Gloria Steinem

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Gloria Steinem

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

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

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.

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

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

Gloria Steinem

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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

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

Gloria Steinem

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

Gloria Steinem

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