Gloria Steinem Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”

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

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

“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.”

“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”

“If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.”